[Pmwiki-users] accented characters

Patrick R. Michaud pmichaud
Sat Jan 31 14:40:32 CST 2004


On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 10:13:19PM +0100, JCG wrote:
> > > Well, when I click  on the URL I obtain this message:
> > > "PmWiki can't process your request
> > > 'I18N/?"lh? Co??tAmbig??' is not a valid PmWiki page name
> > > We are sorry for any inconvenience."
> >
> > What browser are you using?  It looks like your browser may be trying
> > to UTF-8 encode the URLs.
> 
> Bingo: it is Internet Explorer 6.02 (French version, either ISO or
> Windows "tunings" give the same result) on Windows NT (French).
> I just tried with Mozilla Firebird 0.6.1 and Opera 7.11
> (on Windows ME French): both DO work properly!

Try it again now with IE 6.02 (and others should try it with other
browsers again, please).  I think I was able to come up with a fairly 
robust fix to this problem, at least for the ISO-8859-1 character set.
After looking at the Unicode specs I think it's likely to work for
those also, but time will tell.

Pm



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