h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Hello,

I've got some problems with the title of my guide entry, it contains a german
umlaut encoded in HTML: "Göttingen an der Leine, Germany".
Problem:
The search engine doesn't find it if I look for "Göttingen", and every time I
re-edit the page the title is translated from "Göttingen" to "Göttingen",
but the body stays in HTML encoded (as originally written in). Even if I
take the translation and save again the search engine can't find it.

I don't want to change the name to "Goettingen" cause this is not correct,
either I would expect the search engine to search "Göttingen", "Göttingen"
and "Goettingen" instead of real match. This problem will probably appear with
other, language-dependent charsets, too. (e.g. scandinavian languages).

How can I solve?

Thanks in advance, kinly, yours Cooper

This is an unusual problem - I'll have to do some checking and get back to you. At a guess I'd say the problem comes from some limitations being put in when some people started having a lot of fun with lots of HTML in page titles.


BTW I see the page title as "Göttingen an der Leine, Germany" & your forum posts show as Göttingen - but I can't get the search engine to find it either unless I look at all entries starting with "G" ( http://www.h2g2.com/index.cgi?submit=new&official=on&submitted=on&user=on&let=G ) where it shows up.

I'll get back to you as soon as possible
;^)#

Hi

The title being translated from Göttingen to Göttingen is your browser translating the ISO umlaut character automatically.

h2g2 made some changes recently so that the ISO characters like ö in the page contents wasn't translated by the browser during page editing, I think by sending ö to trick the browser into displaying it as entered to avoid confusion.

I've mentioned the search problem to h2g2 - maybe they will be able to provide some more information.


;^)#