Last modified: 2005-11-21 02:28:24 UTC
Sorry for this At bug 65 comment 17 bug 65: Links mixing latin1 literal characters and entities produce bad UTF-8 Brion writes: > * *NEVER use š or š for s-caron.* Numeric character references always > refer to Unicode code points, and U+009A is a reserved control character, *not* s- > caron. It might appear to work sometimes due to a fluke and crappy workarounds > for compatibility with a Windows bug, but should definitely not be relied upon. Use > the real Unicode number, š. The same goes for the other characters in the > Windows CP1252 extended range (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8859 > -1#Windows-1252 ) > > * For the moment the only named character references that will work in links are the > ISO 8859-1 ones (s-caron does not appear in ISO 8859-1). Stick with the numbers > for now. [[project:bugzilla/03860/š]] and [[project:bugzilla/03860/š]] should generate a [[MediaWiki:Badtitle]] but it generates http://yi.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:bugzilla/03860/%C2%9A regards reinhardt [[user:gangleri]] URL will follow; dependency: blocks bug 3985: character conversion (tracking)
