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Thanks. We are working on it.
Unfortunately we need to leave accents as their html representation in editing mode for the time being. We are really close to a visual editor that should take care of many of your problems.
The confusing part is that they are unescaped in the page history's markup view.
"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."
A minor related bug is that symbols are being incorrectly escaped in the page title (which shows in the title bar).
The forum topic for Pokémon: Detective Picachu ( https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=14607369340A25324900&page=1
) has a title element of
<title>Pok&;Atilde;&;copy;mon: Detective Pikachu - TV Tropes Forum</title> (without the extra semicolons, I couldn't get it escaped right here) giving Pokémon.
Edited by alanh
Any word on this issue? Because it's pretty clear at this point that the "visual editor" is not coming anytime soon.
Happy anniversary to the last bump.
Still no plans to fix this bug that turns any page with diacritics into gibberish when attemtping to edit it?
I didn't have this problem for some character sets. See my user page for a test of gibberish devanagari text.
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The gibberish shows up when attempting to edit the page. I obviously can't edit your user page.
Bump², just under 2 years after the last one. I can confirm (by editing my Tropers page) that this is still an issue, but we may have to wait for 2.0 for a fix.
Edited by SilverCrown
When editing a page, all the accents turn into their HTML equivalent ; for instance é' becomes '&_eacute' (without the '_'). Editing it back to accent s doesn't fix anything, as it's back to HTML the next time. It's horribly inconvenient, especially on the French pages, which are now akin to gibberish in eidting mode.
Edited by Yugnat