Last modified: 2006-09-10 12:11:53 UTC
In most of the MediaWiki PHP code, PHP's basename() function has been replaced with wfBaseName() from includes/GlobalFunctions because the PHP default version is seriously buggy in handling multibyte characters. Even after SVN update to get updated to revision 16459, the maintenance/importImages.php script still seems to call the default PHP basename() function. This breaks import of all images in which the basename begins with a UTF-8 two-byte character. In languages such as el: he: zh: which aren't based on the western-euro character set, normally nothing will be correctly importable as stripping leading two-byte characters leaves basically nothing but the .jpg or .png extension. Other languages with a few non-ASCII characters will be affected, but to a lesser extent.
Fixed in r16465
