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[won't fix] Converting German Umlauts in Headers

Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2005 12:53 am
by winkiller
Just saw that a german Ü in a Headline getsconvertued to UE instead of Ue..

http://blog.fdp.de/archives/34-UEberras ... hung!.html

It's 0.8.5, didn't test it with 0.9

Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2005 9:05 am
by Col. Kurtz
In my Firefox 1.07 with german settings its "Überraschung, Überraschung!"

Re: [bug?] Converting German Umlauts in Headers

Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2005 11:20 am
by garvinhicking
Hi!

Yeah, we can't ever make it right: IF someone tipes "ÜBERRASCHUNG!" he will expect "UEBERRASCHUNG" and not "UeBERRASCHUNG". It's too much performance impact to check the next character after the Ü before converting it, so I don't think we should fix/change that.

Regards,
Garvin