Last modified: 2009-01-02 13:31:04 UTC
{{padleft:}} and {{padright:}} doesn't support non-ASCII characters. {{padleft:<word>|<repeats>|<character>}} * Non-ASCII characters in the <word> field makes the <word> character count to grow, like each non-ASCII character counts as two or more ASCII characters. Examples: "{{padleft:cafe|8|-}}" gives "----cafe" "{{padleft:café|8|-}}" gives "---café" "{{padleft:caf♥|8|-}}" gives "--caf♥" maybe because "e" is represented by 1 byte, "é" is represented by 2 bytes and "♥" is represented by 3 bytes. * Non-ASCII characters in the <character> field makes the character that fills the extra gaps to be a "?", maybe because it only takes the first byte of the character represenation while the character is 2 or more bytes length. Look <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Magic_words#Formatting>
Something really strange. Look at this page: <http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Help%3AMagic_words&diff=794659&oldid=794618>. When I edited that page, it was showing the content as normally, but some users complained about that the page was empty. I don't know if that's related to that magic word, because when previewing the content is shown, but when saved no. Ant it happens randomly. Please, go to <http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Ciencia_Al_Poder/test&oldid=803241> (the first revision of the page) and hit the "Newer revision→" link until reach the last revision (at this moment, there are only 4 revisions) and annotate (in a paper, a note, a text file...) if the content is shown or not in each revision. Then return to the first revision (via history page, history of the browser, a link, etc) and do the same process (hit the "Newer revision→" link until reach the last revision) two or three times, annotating the result of each one. At least for me, none of them match!, That's what I got: * oldid=803241: no content * Newer revision: content * Newer revision: content * Newer revision: content (going to history and select the first revision) * oldid=803241: content * Newer revision: content * Newer revision: no content * Newer revision: no content (going to history and select the first revision) * oldid=803241: content * Newer revision: content * Newer revision: no content * Newer revision: no content (going to history and select the first revision) * oldid=803241: no content * Newer revision: content * Newer revision: no content * Newer revision: content (the 2nd and 3rd are equal but may be a coincidence)
Duping to 16852, since it already has a proposed patch. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 16852 ***
