Thank you! I had not seen this answer when I sent my comment.
I will check this solution at the level of the website... which is of course
the best.
Le 02.06.26 à 17:24, Gabriel Ellsworth a écrit :
Thank you, Sven.
On Tue, 2 Jun 2026, Sven Axelsson wrote:
All the files linked from that forum post are served as images as can be
seen from
the url (https://www1.cpdl.org/wiki/images/e/eb/Alma-2026-02.ly)
That probably means that they are interpreted as raw binary instead of
utf-8.
Here is my current understanding of the problem and potential solution.
The problem:
CPDL’s server currently interprets .ly files as raw binary instead of UTF-8 and delivers
the files to browsers as generic binary uploads.
… and the solution would be:
Adjust CPDL’s web server or MediaWiki configuration so that .ly files are delivered to
browsers as text/plain; charset=UTF-8.
Do I have that right? (I asked AI for help, so it very well could be wrong!)
At Help:Special characters - MediaWiki
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Special_characters>, I read that “MediaWiki uses
Unicode (UTF-8) for character encoding,” so my hope is that this would be an easy fix
for CPDL.
By the way, would anyone reading this message be willing to forward this thread to
Nancho Álvarez? I tried an email address that I found on his website, but my message
could not be delivered. I would like to ask him how he makes his website work well in
this regard.
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