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Bug 21767 - Non-printable characters (e.g. Unicode control characters) in wikitext page source


Summary:	Non-printable characters (e.g. Unicode control characters) in wikitext page s...

Status:	NEW

Product:	MediaWiki
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Page editing (Other open bugs)
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	Low normal with 1 vote (vote)
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Assigned To:	Nobody - You can work on this!

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Reported:	2009-12-06 00:59 UTC by Wolfram Schmied
Modified:	2012-12-19 08:32 UTC (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

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Description Wolfram Schmied 2009-12-06 00:59:09 UTC

See

http://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Index_talk:1965_FBI_monograph_on_Nation_of_Islam.djvu&oldid=1678252#Non-printables_in_OCR_output

I don't know how much of a security concern that is, but I think DELs and somesuch do not belong in source code, and should be stripped automatically.

Comment 1 Dan Wolff 2012-12-19 08:32:24 UTC

Yeah, it seems like invisible characters are allowed in wikitext for no good reason. E.g. here[1] I'm cleaning up a left-over LTR character, since my script gave weird results because of it.

[1] https://sv.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=papperstidning&diff=1496883&oldid=1035418

See also Bug 3696.

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