Mailing List Archive: encoding problems in russian wikipedia

Russian wiki is now set up at http://ru.wikipedia.org/ with UTF-8
encoding (as are all our non-Latin1 wikis on the new software).

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

elian wrote:
> Hello,
>
> this message showed up at the talkpage of [[Wikipedia:Multilingual
> coordination]]:
>
> Somebody! Please help russian Wikipedia! There must be one line inserted
> in config for ru.wikipedia.com for it to function properly!
>
> ...
> $HttpCharset = "Windows-1251"; # Charset for pages, like "iso 8859-2"
> ...
>
> Will You please, contact the Admin, or help me find him!!!
> see also [1]
> Andrew Vovk 18:10 Nov 7, 2002 (MSK)
>
> maybe someone can fix this.
>
> greetings,
> elian