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Bug 12410 - Documentation about character coding and conversion in MediaWiki
Documentation about character coding and conversion in MediaWiki
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
Documentation (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Lowest enhancement (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
http://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Templa...
aklapper-moreinfo
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Blocks: documentation
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Reported: 2007-12-25 06:12 UTC by lɛʁi לערי ריינהארט
Modified: 2014-07-18 12:27 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Description lɛʁi לערי ריינהארט 2007-12-25 06:12:46 UTC
Dear friends;

I did not come across this issue. In order to define a unique sort criteria in categories ( see http://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Sort_key/ and http://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Sort_key/#comments ) I needed a character which is not allowed in page titles but which is accepted in MediaWiki.

http://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:Sort_key/#wikification_for_09_0A_0D
shows that 	 
 
 are accepted as MediaWiki input
and
http://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:Sort_key/#piping_with_09_0A_0D
shows that 	 
 
 are accepted for pipe.

questions:

a1) is this legal?
a2) if not it probably will change at some point in time?

b1) is this included in the documentation?
b2) where?

Best regards Reinhardt [[user:Gangleri]]

P.S. MediaZilla is *not* a forum. Allow me one related question:

c1) where is the documentation about character normalisation / conversion?
Comment 1 Quim Gil 2012-11-28 07:30:04 UTC
This is a very old bug report, never addressed. Probably fixed?

Is this still a problem in current MediaWiki installations?
Comment 2 Andre Klapper 2012-11-28 08:24:18 UTC
The links are now
http://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:Sort_key/#wikification_for_.26.23x09.3B_.26.23x0A.3B_.26.23x0D.3B
http://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:Sort_key/#piping_with_.26.23x09.3B_.26.23x0A.3B_.26.23x0D.3B

(In reply to comment #0)
> In order to define a unique sort criteria in categories I needed a character
> which is not allowed in page titles but which is accepted in MediaWiki.

This sounds like a gross hack to me.
Explaining what you try to achieve (concrete example) would be good.

> a1) is this legal?

What is "this" here? 
The current situation, or the use of those three characters for sorting?

> a2) if not it probably will change at some point in time?

No guarantees.
Comment 3 Quim Gil 2013-11-19 15:27:12 UTC
At this point, what is the enhancement requested in this report? To document a current behavior or to change something?

Marking as Lowest since this seems to reflect the situation better.
Comment 4 Andre Klapper 2014-07-18 12:27:16 UTC
Unfortunately closing this report as no further information has been provided.

lɛʁi: Please feel free to reopen this report if you can provide the information asked for in comment 3, and if this still happens. Thanks!

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