Last modified: 2013-10-23 18:16:59 UTC
When editing pages on Serbian Wikipedia, some users can't insert/see Cyrillic characters. Instead of Cyrillic characters, "unknown" characters appear in the main text area (see picture[1]). It goes both for already present text and for text being inserted. When edit is saved, everything is displayed correctly. Also, if copy/pasted out of edit area, everything is displayed correctly. All users that reported this issue seem to be using Google Chrome. I'm experiencing it as well: Chrome version 16.0.912.77 m, localized to Serbian, OS is Windows XP. It happens to both logged and anonymous users. Some users report that this problem is intermittent (it appears and disappears). The problem seem to be present only in main text area. This is very serious problem because Serbian language uses Cyrillic alphabet and both logged in and anonymous users that have this issue can't edit Wikipedia. [1] http://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BA%D0%B0:Wiki_cirilica.PNG
Created attachment 9936 [details] srwiki screenshot
Created attachment 9978 [details] Screenshot editing some page on sr.wikipedia in Chrome, WinXP Looks fine when I try it... http://sr.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D0%B8%D1%98%D0%B0:%D0%90%D0%BA%D1%82%D1%83%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8&action=edit Windows XP SP 3 Chrome 17.0.963.46 (current release, freshly installed)
I said in the bug description that it is intermittent. However, I haven't experienced it since I opened this bug, so I asked on sr.wiki Village Pump if there is any other user that is still having this problem. Two of the users that had this problem before said that they haven't experienced it lately. One of them added that while it was present the solution that worked was to delete cash and/or restart the browser. So, what are next steps? Should we close this bug?
Obradovic: Is this still an issue lately?
As far as I know, since January this bug haven't been present. I've skimmed across wp.sr "Village Pump/technical issues" and haven't noticed anything similar lately.
Thanks for the feedback. Closing as WORKSFORME for the time being, but please reopen if this happens again.
