On 01/08/2010 02:17 AM, TJ Frazier wrote: > I'm trying to zero in on this. One problem I see is that with "first > preview" checked, I'm seeing occasional strange "black-diamond > question-mark" characters. But these go away if I change Ff's View > > Character Encoding from UTF-8 to Western (ISO-8859-1). > Question: what encoding should be used with the wiki? > > [1] http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/BASIC_Guide > Edit the first section ("About OpenOffice.org Basic"), and look at the > Note at the end. Funny character appears immediately after the VBA in > the note. If you enable first preview, and UTF-8.
I see the same character. I prodded this a bit, and for whatever reason, the space between the A and the : is the problem, and it only shows up in the Preview on first edit (with and without the Rich Editor enabled). Maybe there is an encoding issue in the Webserver side? or in the MediaWiki setup? The only mention of UTF8 in the Wiki setup is the shell setting: $wgShellLocale = "en_US.UTF-8"; which is only used (as far as I know) by ImageMagick (for thumbnailing Wiki images etc). For me, switching to/from UTF8 in my local Firefox settings has no impact on the appearance of the ?... it's there regardless. Hmmmm did some digging on this... this might be a deeper issue related to the encoding on the database itself. I have a bad feeling that something somewhere in the chain from database to MedaiWiki is set to "latin1". if that's the case... fixing it is not a nice procedure. C. -- Clayton Cornell [email protected] OpenOffice.org Documentation Project co-lead Sun Microsystems, Hamburg, Germany --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
