[pmwiki-users] Problem with utf & i18n (French accented characters)

[Donald Z. Osborn]

I am setting up a wiki (farm) that needs to be in two working languages
(English & French) and accommodate texts in some West African languages that
use extended Latin scripts - so it should accommodate UTF-8.

The early set-up is okay now except that I encountered an odd display issue
with the accented French characters in the interface: Basically, although
the output is in utf-8 and my browsers are set to utf-8 I am getting the
black diamond in Firefox 2 and empty square in MSIE7 for the accented
characters. Switch to iso-8859-1 and everything appears normal. This is not
what I expected.

Any ideas? (Not sure if it should matter but I'm using the Monobook skin for
this.) I would like to sort this out before getting to input of texts with
characters from the Latin extended A & B, IPA, and Larin extended additional
ranges.

At the minimum the English and French interfaces and texts should function
seamlessly (I am using Multilanguage also) and a user should be able to see
the extended characters in the edit windows as well as in the content
display of the wiki. The latter depends on the users' systems too of course,
but if I'm running into issues with French already I'm a bit concerned how
this will work out.

(This wiki is actually temporary - if it works it might get transferred as
is to an as yet to be determined site; if it doesn't then the contents will
be migrated to another software on the evventual new site.)

TIA for any feedback.

Don.
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