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== Font question ==

This may sound trivial to some, but I couldn't find the appropriate category and am in a bit of a rush:

I want to create an article for "Dubravka Ugre?ić". So far I have managed to create [[Dubravka Ugresic]] and redirect "Dubravka Ugre?ic" there, but when I type "Ugre?ić", though it shows up accurately on an article page, clicking Edit This Article creates the Title "Ugre?iÄ?", and I just had to delete an article created under that heading. How can I create something for "Ugre?ić" which looks aesthetically inoffensive and will help direct those who search with the Croatian accents (typing "&#263" or "&cacute" doesn't help)? [[User:Simonides|Simonides]] 05:29, 19 Jun 2004 (UTC)

: The verdana font that the new wikipedia skin uses apparently has bugs showing diacritals.  I believe a bug has already been files about that.  In the meantime, switching to another skin (in preferences) should fix it for you (but not, of course, for casual visitors). -- [[User:Finlay McWalter|Finlay McWalter]] | [[User talk:Finlay McWalter | Talk]] 11:16, 19 Jun 2004 (UTC)
:This is not a font bug, but an encoding limitation. ć is not a [[latin-1]] character, while ? is, and therefore ć can not be included in article titles. So, until the english wikipedia is transferred to [[unicode]], we can only use latin-1 characters in article titles. Using unicode (any character) in article text is fine though. [[User:Sverdrup|✏ Sverdrup]] 01:15, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)

::Is this not related to the fact the English Wikipedia is not in [[UTF8]] rather than being a font issue. I don't think [[Wikipedia:special characters|special characters]] like ? are supposed to be allowed in titles. [[User:Angela|Angela]][[user talk:Angela|.]] 01:14, 21 Jun 2004 (UTC)