Sam Geeraerts wrote:
Dmitri Gabinski wrote:
Hi!
I cannot understand, how I can contract the site admin(s), so am
posting here.
When trying to edit Russian wiki pages (via Firefox 3.1 beta2, if that
matters), I encounter the following problem: Cyrillic characters are
replaced with HTML surrogates, thus becoming such chains as
Для
удаления и
Editing is is way too labor-consuming and you cannot, for example, use
spell check.
Look, it’s the XXI century, why not use Unicode?
Best regards,
Dmitri Gabinski
I agree that applications that still can't handle Unicode are very
annoying. However, it looks like your problem is not Pmwiki's fault. If
you force the text encoding for the wiki to UTF-8 in your browser, the
characters will not be transformed to HTML entities. That's not the
solution, though, because then the text looks messed up in its default
encoding.
The problem is that the wiki is served with a charset of ISO-8859-1 in
the HTTP headers. So all the content up until now has been entered in
that encoding. If the server configuration would be changed to UTF-8,
all the content would have to be converted to that as well. I don't know
how difficult that is, but as you point out, the wiki can't sanely be
edited in non-ASCII character sets without such a switch.
Maybe Brian can shed some light on this?
I did some research: apparently the conversion can be done with recode [1].
There's also a PmWiki recipe to convert input on the fly [2], but I
think it's only useful if the content is already in UTF-8. It seems
intended to catch input from a browser that is forced to another
encoding (or one that can't handle UTF-8).
[1] http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/UTF-8
[2] http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/UTF8Conv
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