Item6063: WYSIWYG spoils Umlauts

1. Createa Topic with Umlauts (ä ü ö) an a table with %<nop>EDITTABLE{}%

2. Spoil the verbatim-tag as explained in Bugs.Item6062

3. Edit and Save with WYSIWY, all Umlauts are destroyed

I have also tried this on my sandbox:

check revisions 6 -9

Umlauts: ä ü ö

%EDITTABLE{}%
| <!--�verbatim3�--> | Test |
 <nop> 

-- TWiki:Main/CedricWeber - 13 Oct 2008

I do not see this effect. I would see the same with ÆØÅ also every day

Do you run your TWiki with UTF8?

UTF8 is considered experimental and we have at least 20 open UTF8 bugs. UTF8 is only recommended when TWiki is used for Chinese/Japanese.

-- KennethLavrsen - 13 Oct 2008

Hi Kenneth, I created the output in my Sandbox on twiki.org --> TWiki:Sandbox.CedricWeberSandbox as mentioned above. I guess you're not using UTF8 since there is a prominent note at the top of the site ;). Anyway, as also mentioned in Item6062 no UTF8 in use...

-- TWiki:Main.CedricWeber - 13 Oct 2008

This happens when I have a unknown character (UTF(?) in my topics and then edit with wysiwyg. E.g. ap page with:

� üüüäääö

turns to:

� üüüäääö

after editing with wysiwyg. Sadly there are quite some pages containing such characters in our wiki...

-- CedricWeber - 22 Oct 2008

If you use UTF8 in topics on a site that isn't configured for UTF8, there is nothing that can be done. There is no way (other than human intervention, and even that's dodgy) to guess what encoding was used to create a TWiki topic.

Please read the primer section of TWiki:Codev.UnderstandingEncodings

-- CrawfordCurrie - 23 Oct 2008