[Wikia-l] MediaWiki:Description

[Jesús Martínez]

I found a new feature: The contents of [[MediaWiki:Description]] will
be placed inside the content of the <meta name="description" ... > tag
of the main page of a Wiki. That description should be shown on search
engines, but only when the main page appears in the results.

But, it doesn't support non-ASCII characters so non-english wikis
would probably have strange characters on it.

As an example, "é" turns into é�¾, and "ñ" into á�¾

Encoding such characters as entities -- like &eacute; or &ntilde; --
does not work because they are double-encoded: &eacute; turns into
&amp;eacute;

A fix for that would be greatly appreciated!