On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 17:38:06 -0700, Brion Vibber <brion(a)pobox.com>
wrote:
Nathan Hamblen wrote:
Will the English Wikipedia be moving to UTF-8? I
think it's appropriate,
seeing how often non-Western European characters need to be represented
in it.
We'd love to, but we need to either a) take it offline for a few days or
b) invent a way to convert the database without data loss or damage
while keeping it online.
I wouldn't mind having en: down for a couple of days if it comes back up
with UTF-8. Though I'm certainly not representative.
Cheers,
Philip