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Bug 25623 - automatic unicode conversion for Malayalam makes it difficult to link to external sites using old unicode sequences; want a tag to supress conversion
automatic unicode conversion for Malayalam makes it difficult to link to exte...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
Internationalization (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Normal enhancement (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
: i18n
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Blocks: 56295
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Reported: 2010-10-23 14:39 UTC by praveenp
Modified: 2013-10-29 05:09 UTC (History)
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Description praveenp 2010-10-23 14:39:43 UTC 
Unicode equivalence fix for Language Malayalam (https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22371) helps a lot in internal linking and searching. But it cause some problem in external linking. For example Kerala Governments encyclopedia project "Sarvavijnjana kosham" uses mixed versions of unicode and so sometimes linking there get not work properly. If possible please include a feature similar to <nowiki> to suppress automatic unicode version conversion.
Comment 1 Bawolff (Brian Wolff) 2010-10-23 18:22:17 UTC 
(In reply to comment #0)
> Unicode equivalence fix for Language Malayalam
> (https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22371) helps a lot in internal
> linking and searching. But it cause some problem in external linking. For
> example Kerala Governments encyclopedia project "Sarvavijnjana kosham" uses
> mixed versions of unicode and so sometimes linking there get not work properly.
> If possible please include a feature similar to <nowiki> to suppress automatic
> unicode version conversion.

This is not a fix, but as a work around you can try % encoding your urls. For example a url that contained the old way of writing (hopefully i get these characters right) MALAYALAM LETTER CHILLU LL  (aka U+D33 U+D4D U+200D): http://example.com/ള്‍ Can be written in the wiki as http://example.com/%E0%B4%B3%E0%B5%8D%E2%80%8D and that should not be automatically converted to the new form (aka 'MALAYALAM LETTER CHILLU LL' (U+0D7E) which has the % encoding form of http://example.com/E0%B5%BE )


Note, I'm changing the component from Database to internationalization as I believe that internationalization is a better component for unicode normalization issues.
Comment 2 Niklas Laxström 2013-05-29 17:49:53 UTC 
I will recommend using the url encoding workaround which works universally.

The fix for this bug would be very complicated and even have security implications.
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