Question

Netscape 4.77 garbles umlauts (and probably most 8bit characters) when going back to the edit page. The cycle edit-preview-save-edit is ok. Yes, I did the fix for CharacterEntity as described in NoWarningWhenEnteringNonStdChars.

The odd thing: this problem does not exist with NS4.74, which I used until now. Checked lynx 2.?: fine, checked IE5: same problem.

Does anybody understand the background of this problem? Probably this is a pure BrowserIssues, but I have to find a work-around.

The other data, probably irrelevant:

• TWiki version: Dec 2000
• Web server: Apache
• Server OS: HP-UX
• Client OS: NT

Just for demo: this should be ä=ä - seems to work here.

-- PeterKlausner - 09 Nov 2001

Answer

TWiki.org runs as of now TWiki 01 Dec 2001. In this release we changed in all template files the Content-Type from us-ascii to iso-8859-1:

 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />

That might be the cure to the problem.

-- PeterThoeny - 05 Dec 2001