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It also has the issue of breaking URLs that use special characters.
Eating a Vanilluxe will give you frostbite.
Because the website internally saves text in ASCII instead of UNICODE and I don't know why would it still do that in this day and age.
TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup
Is this a fix that needs to be added to the Editing Improvements thread
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I also noticed sometimes when editing my own comments that some stuff turns into gibberish as well. Same issue?
Can you give me some exact examples with links? trying to troubleshoot this now
Edited by kory Now monitoring Wishlist and Bugs
- Some of the non-English home pages, e.g.
- Es.Home Page (Spanish)
- Gr.Home Page (Greek)
- Ru.Zaglavnaya Stranitsa (Russian)
- Chinese Literature
- Emojis
When editing a page, a ton of characters turn into their HTML equivalent, such as "é" becoming "é". This happens for accentuated characters, diacritical characetrs, cyrilic characters, kanji characters, etc.
This is really bothersome on pages such as the ones relating to the Pokémon franchise, since it constantly butchers the name, and an absolute nightmare on foreign-language pages that use a lot of diacritics, which become absolute gibberish.
The issue has been present for years now, but the previous ticket was closed without anything actually being done about it. There is a script on the forum that "fixes" the issue, but wiki newcomers just won't know about it and tend to get discouraged immediately from editing diacritic-heavy pages.
Edited by Yugnat