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Bug 17961 - add comment to generateSitemap.php saying what is encoded
add comment to generateSitemap.php saying what is encoded
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
Maintenance scripts (Other open bugs)
1.15.x
All All
: Normal trivial (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Blocks: documentation
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Reported: 2009-03-13 02:56 UTC by Dan Jacobson
Modified: 2011-01-09 13:01 UTC (History)
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Description Dan Jacobson 2009-03-13 02:56:29 UTC
In generateSitemap.php kindly add a comment explaining what

  $title = Title::makeTitle( $namespace, str_repeat( "\xf0\xa8\xae\x81", 63 ) . "\xe5\x96\x83" );

is all about.
Say what is encoded in the string. Or what encoding it is.
Comment 1 Ilmari Karonen 2011-01-06 22:45:10 UTC
It seems to be constructing a title consisting of 255 bytes, each of which needs to be URL-encoded: that should be about as long as a URL for a page in the given namespace can get.

The title is valid UTF-8, and consists of 63 repeats of the 4-byte character 
Comment 2 Ilmari Karonen 2011-01-06 22:51:18 UTC
WTF... Bugzilla truncated my comment when I tried to include the 4-byte Unicode character in it.  Trying again with the actual characters removed:

The title is valid UTF-8, and consists of 63 repeats of the 4-byte character U+28B81 followed by the 3-byte character U+5583.  My browser can't display the first character, but Googling for it led me to [[Prince of Tang (Shaowu)]] where it is used in the subject's personal name and discussed in a footnote.  The second character apparently means "keep talking, chattering; mumble" according to http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E5%96%83

Ps. Explanatory comment added in r79769.
Comment 3 Dan Jacobson 2011-01-09 13:01:04 UTC
OK, so they are just using some fun arbitrary characters maybe.
Perhaps add a note somewhere saying how such strings will be used. It's not too clear from the code.

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