Timwi wrote:
The "special-case work" he was
referring to was the conversion of the
respective Wiktionaries to UTF-8 (sorry if this is too technical,
since we're not on the tech list here). This cannot be done by regular
contributors and must be done externally. Because of that, I'm finding
it extremely disappointing that nobody has done it yet and expects a
Dutch contributor to do it. Tim, or Brion, or whoever, please could
you convert all Wiktionaries to UTF-8? The sooner you do it, the less
there will be to convert.
On the train this morning I started work on changing the remaining
language files so we can use UTF-8 on all languages while retaining
Latin-1 compatibility on the large Wikipedias until we finish converting
them.
I'll try to finish it up this evening after work and see if we can get
the wiktionaries back to their natural Unicode state.
I've checked in and installed the changes. It should be possible to
convert the da, es, nl, and sv wiktionaries relatively quickly, while
the wikipedias wait longer to switch into UTF-8 (on account of downtime
needs etc).
-- brion vibber (brion @