[pmwiki-users] UTF-8 display broken big-time
Patrick R. Michaud
pmichaud at pobox.com
Wed Jun 15 23:19:53 CDT 2005
On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 01:16:21PM +0930, Clytie Siddall wrote:
> Hello all :)
>
> I started a PmWikiVi page last night for my language, copied over the
> English text, looked at my clock and realized I should get some
> sleep, saved a couple of introductory sentences in my language
> and ... they displayed with most of the accented characters as
> question marks. [1]
>
> This indicates a badly-broken UTF-8 display, in my experience, which
> has become de facto wide, since Vietnamese is a test case for full
> Unicode support (combined diacritics).
Try it again now -- the trick is to make sure that the pages are
in UTF-8 mode. (For a huge variety of reasons, PmWiki and pmwiki.org
default to iso-8859-1, but by setting the translation page value of
'xlpage-i18n' to 'utf-8' that it switches them.)
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