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03:34, 30 May 2006 User:70.188.188.82 (→Alt Keycodes - three #'s is better than 4)
02:24, 18 May 2006 contribs)| (adding helpful info on how to use the keyboard's Alt key to get the special characters)
01:01, 18 May 2006 contribs)| (adding helpful link to w:Windows Alt keycodes, *Unicode input methods for charts, and, for help info on inputting special char from keyboard)
05:39, 16 May 2006 contribs)| (fix 'sql dumps' link)
21:05, 11 May 2006 User:66.15.175.80 (→IE for the Mac - rv line of gibberish)
14:50, 11 May 2006 User:196.12.47.41 (Asdfasdf”asdfasdf”asdfasdfasdf”afasdf”asdfasdf)
03:59, 4 May 2006 User:24.8.170.42 (→Editing - numeric character reference, not numeric character entity ref. also, -note that note that note that)
19:05, 18 April 2006 contribs)| (Revert to revision dated 04:25, 2 April 2006 by 216.79.156.83, oldid 320389 using popups)
01:39, 11 March 2006 User:192.18.43.10 (Our ''three'' weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency... and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope...)
02:11, 28 February 2006 contribs)| (→Systems for character encoding)
23:47, 25 February 2006 contribs)| (→Editing - past tense, the conversion at 1.5 upgrade eliminated that issue)
12:46, 18 October 2005 contribs)| (In some fonts, e.g. Arial, all the characters in this box are displayed, but it is not convenient for a user to have to switch fonts between webpages.)
12:31, 18 October 2005 contribs)| (→Editing - Use a link to a special character listed under the edit box to insert that character. Note however that some characters are not displayed in Internet Explorer:)
12:20, 18 October 2005 contribs)| (→Viewing - but only for people with that font.)
23:35, 16 October 2005 contribs)| (→Viewing - <nowiki><font face="Arial Unicode MS">...</font></nowiki> may work.)
13:06, 21 September 2005 User:84.60.202.90 (→Console browsers - typo)
01:18, 2 September 2005 contribs)| (→Console browsers)
14:27, 17 August 2005 User:62.189.34.58 (→Systems for character encoding - seems section links are case sensitive)
14:17, 17 August 2005 User:62.189.34.58 (→Systems for character encoding - clarify a bit and get tense right)
06:18, 2 August 2005 contribs)|m (Reverted edits by 195.58.1.155 to last version by 62.189.34.58)
04:46, 2 August 2005 User:195.58.1.155 (→Systems for character encoding)
22:49, 18 July 2005 User:62.189.34.58 (→Systems for character encoding - i don't think converted forms of existing text ever get saved back to the database.)
11:55, 16 July 2005 contribs)|m (Reverted edits by 85.250.217.251 to last version by Patrick)
13:13, 27 June 2005 contribs)| (Note that Special:Export exports using UTF-8 even if the database is encoded in ISO 8859-1, at least that was the case for the English Wikipedia, already when it used version 1.4.)
13:09, 27 June 2005 contribs)| (→Systems for character encoding - From MediaWiki 1.5, each project uses '''Unicode (UTF-8)''' character encoding.)
03:35, 22 June 2005 contribs)| (→See also - *w:en:Alphabets derived from the Latin)
20:35, 17 June 2005 contribs)| (→Systems for character encoding - Remove weird, probably not very helpful advice)
15:50, 17 June 2005 User:24.128.207.80 (spelling, etc. in - →Ways to enter special characters)
15:33, 17 June 2005 User:24.128.207.80 (→Systems for character encoding)
23:02, 16 June 2005 contribs)|m (→Systems for character encoding)
22:32, 16 June 2005 contribs)| (→Systems for character encoding)
21:55, 16 June 2005 contribs)| (→See also - *w:en:Character encodings in HTML/all characters)
14:07, 16 June 2005 contribs)| (→Systems for character encoding)
13:19, 7 July 2004 contribs)| (→External links - *[http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/block/index.htm Details of many unicode characters, including the named, decimal and hexadecimal character reference, showing for each ho)
12:32, 7 July 2004 contribs)| (→External links - shows how the named and decimal character references look in one's browser)
12:18, 7 July 2004 contribs)| (character entity reference)
12:04, 7 July 2004 contribs)| (→External links - *[http://www.alanwood.net/demos/ent4_frame.html HTML 4.0 Character Entity References])
12:01, 7 July 2004 contribs)|m (→Greek letters and math symbols)
11:46, 7 July 2004 contribs)| (→Greek letters and math symbols -Compare &nabla; and <nowiki><math> \nabla </math></nowiki>, giving ∇ and <math> \nabla </math>, respectively. Depending on browser settings, the second ma)
23:14, 6 July 2004 contribs)| (*http://www.unicode.org/charts/ Unicode character charts; hexadecimal numbers only; PDF files showing all characters independent of browser capabilities)
23:11, 6 July 2004 contribs)|m (→Browser differences)
23:09, 6 July 2004 contribs)| (→Browser differences - For each, try to choose fonts which show all characters you need.)
23:05, 6 July 2004 contribs)| (→Browser differences - rm dup/superfluous)
22:57, 6 July 2004 contribs)| (→Browser differences -Also, since the font in the edit box may well be different from that of the rendered page, the browser may show the characters properly in one of the two areas and not in the)
22:24, 6 July 2004 contribs)| (→See also - *Help:Romanian characters)
22:21, 6 July 2004 contribs)| (→See also - Help:Turkish characters)
22:21, 6 July 2004 contribs)| (*Help:Turkish characters)
22:18, 6 July 2004 contribs)| (→CJK characters - rm dup)
08:09, 6 July 2004 contribs)| (**the most common special characters, such as é, are in the character set, so code like &eacute; , although allowed, is not needed.)
07:20, 6 July 2004 contribs)| (The Esperanto Wikipedia uses UTF-8, but a character like Ŝ is automatically converted into the alternative notation Sx, because in some browsers it may not display in the edit box, even if it dis)
07:35, 5 July 2004 contribs)| (→Browser differences -E.g., use w:Wikipedia:Sandbox.)
11:14, 3 July 2004 contribs)| (E.g. this may happen with the character Ŝ, displaying in your browser as Ŝ (copy: Ŝ); see the edit box how the two versions display there.)
10:25, 3 July 2004 contribs)|m (→Browser differences)
10:21, 3 July 2004 contribs)| (→Browser differences - Since the text in the edit window usually uses an other font than the webpage itself, it is also possible that a character displays correctly on the webpage, but not in edit)
09:54, 3 July 2004 contribs)| (→Browser differences -Alternatives include using a similar, more common symbol, or using an image, e.g. eo:Ŝablono:El: http://eo.wikipedia.org/upload/d/db/Ikono_tero_malgranda.png.)
09:46, 3 July 2004 contribs)| (Not all characters are displayed in all browsers. Note that as a reader, it is best to use a browser with maximum capabilities, but as an author the least capable of the common browsers is a better gu)
09:18, 3 July 2004 contribs)| (To try out which applies in a project, copy e.g. ☉ (this should be a circle with a dot inside) into the edit box; if it is still there after pressing Preview, the project uses UTF-8. On other projects)
09:08, 3 July 2004 contribs)| (*Unicode - The non-western Wikipedias, some western Wikipedias including French, the Wiktionaries, Meta, Wikibooks, Wikisource, Wikiquote)
07:38, 3 July 2004 contribs)| (→CJK characters - To convert, in a UTF-8 project, in the wikitext, the codes to characters, copy the characters rendered in the webpage, into the edit box (for characters only, without markup).)
07:13, 3 July 2004 contribs)| (→CJK characters - I tried it out, the special trick seems no longer needed.)
07:10, 3 July 2004 contribs)| (unavailable characters which are copied into the edit box are first properly displayed as character, and automatically converted to their codes on Preview or Save.)
06:44, 3 July 2004 contribs)| (Each MediaWiki project uses either of the following two systems for representing characters:)
15:38, 2 July 2004 contribs)| (→Unicode - [http://unicode.coeurlumiere.com/] shows for all possible values whether they work and how they look in your browser, using decimal code.)
14:55, 2 July 2004 contribs)| (→Advanced Entities - On projects where this does not work, upload a copy of the image to that project.)
14:53, 2 July 2004 contribs)| (→Advanced Entities -On the English Wikipedia it has been uploaded as an image, and can there be referenced as <nowiki>Image:Del.gif</nowiki>, or here and some other projects as <nowiki>http://e)
14:46, 2 July 2004 contribs)| (→Unicode -on your browser they give Й and Й, respectively.)
14:39, 2 July 2004 contribs)| (→ISO-8859-1 Characters - fix links (a small start))
04:02, 7 September 2003 contribs)| (For specific details about other langauges, see: Turkish (more will be added to this list as contributors in other languages appear).)
