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 > >>>> _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l > >>>> mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: > >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l > >>> mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: > >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > >>> > >> _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l > >> mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: > >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l > > mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > To unsubscribe, go to: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
