So how do I implement these changes on my PC? I am a noob when it comes to
MediaWiki and PHP, so simple step-by-step instructions would be much
appreciated.

On 16 February 2015 at 16:13, Tim Starling <[email protected]> wrote:

> There is
>
> https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/125573/
>
> It doesn't look too hacky to me, and it was rebased just a few months
> ago. Considering who the author is, it probably works. Note that
> img_auth.php needs to be used. There is an article about img_auth.php
> here:
>
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Image_Authorization
>
> On Bugzilla there are a lot of suggestions to use iconv() to convert
> to some random 8-bit character set, which doesn't seem like a great
> idea to me.
>
> I find it somewhat ironic that it's necessary to encode to ASCII on
> Windows, given that the Windows has been natively UCS-2/UTF-16 since
> the introduction of the Win32 API, whereas Linux has never had proper
> character set support.
>
> -- Tim Starling
>
> On 14/02/15 15:15, Arcane 21 wrote:
> > There is an extremely hacky fix that is not recommend somewhere on
> > Bugzilla/Phabricator, but otherwise, no.
> >
> > This issue does not affect Linux or Mac users, but is unsolvable on
> > Windows aside from that hacky fix (which is a pain to set up and
> > can corrupt the database if I recall right).
> >
> >> Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 13:40:36 +1000 From:
> >> [email protected] To: [email protected]
> >> Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Enabling special character file names
> >>
> >> Yeah I'm running Windows. So I'm guessing there's no known way
> >> of overcoming this issue?
> >>
> >> On 14 February 2015 at 13:34, Arcane 21 <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Small correction to previous message: Windows.
> >>>
> >>> From what I understand, Windows based systems have trouble
> >>> parsing certain characters when MediaWiki is run on a WAMP
> >>> stack due to the Windows settings for saving filenames.
> >>>
> >>> From: [email protected] To: [email protected]
> >>> Subject: RE: [MediaWiki-l] Enabling special character file
> >>> names Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 21:32:58 -0600
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Is your web stack on a Wnodws based system? If so, they have
> >>> known issues with special character file names.
> >>>
> >>>> Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 13:12:35 +1000 From:
> >>>> [email protected] To: [email protected]
> >>>> Subject: [MediaWiki-l] Enabling special character file names
> >>>>
> >>>> Hi
> >>>>
> >>>> I'd like to allow special characters in file names on my
> >>>> Wiki. For
> >>> example,
> >>>> currently I'd like some file names to include Greek letters
> >>>> like alpha
> >>> and
> >>>> beta. In order to avoid being accused of using this list as
> >>>> my personal "Google" I am giving you the details of all my
> >>>> searches of Google and Wikimedia sites. I have checked
> >>>> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T3780
> >>> but
> >>>> I couldn't see any solutions to this problem. I was going to
> >>>> try https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T3780#60419 but after I
> >>>> searched SpecialUpload.php I did not find anywhere in the
> >>>> file with
> >>>>
> >>>>> if( $this->saveUploadedFile(
> >>>>
> >>>> in it, hence I couldn't even give it a try (granted that
> >>>> posted made
> >>> almost
> >>>> 8 years ago).
> >>>>
> >>>> I also found https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/FileBackend after
> >>>> searching
> >>> for
> >>>> FileBackend, as it was a popular topic in this thread, in a
> >>>> MediaWiki search but I hadn't the foggiest how it applied to
> >>>> what I wanted. I also saw
> >>>>
> >>>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4138705/mediawiki-special-characters-in-file-name-issue
> >>>>
> >>> but I haven't a clue what the accepted answer meant for me.
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks for your time, Brenton
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