Last modified: 2010-04-06 19:34:55 UTC
Unicode Control Characters such as "RIGHT-TO-LEFT OVERRIDE" (U+202E) or *all unprintable characters* should be restricted in title text. A title including control characters breaks RC, history, contributions, etc. A username including control characters breaks page text after the signature! And they are hard to be linked. ... in Japanese Wikipedia, a username with U+202E is used as vandalism.
compare with bug 1524: usernames should use unicode whitelist
*** Bug 3888 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Created attachment 1052 [details] screen dump added new screen dump: This gets a real mess. This happened because http://yi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E2%80%AEtest was edited: http://yi.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E2%80%AEtest&action=history
Hallo! Last week I found http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/User:%C2%AD%C2%AD%C2%AD%C2%AD containing more "Unicode Character SOFT HYPHEN - U+00AD"'s. http://yi.wiktionary.org/wiki/category:bugzilla/02042 contains more tests. Some of them relating to Unicode whitespace characters (see bug 02042). regards reinhardt [[user:gangleri]]
*** Bug 5736 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 5735 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
final patch on bug #6100 has fixes for that problem in recentchanges
*** Bug 7939 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 7414 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 8312 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
As of r18513, the LRM and RLM marks are stripped from titles on normalization. This will avoid creation of broken links and broken titles from cut-n-paste from the list pages where sometimes those marks creep in. Running cleanup on live wikis for titles where this has crept in. Such pages can be found with prefix search on 'Broken/'.
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7414#c6 should have been posted here ---- the actual report is part of a more general one: bug 4185 feature request: provide a notification for irregular Unicode characters
*** Bug 3819 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I think r44000 fixed this back in 2008. Closing.
