You can mostly compensate for the SVG issue by enabling the
NativeSvgHandler extension to cover almost all issues clientside, but I
concur the whole special character filenames issue on Windows based OSes
drives me crazy and I wish was remedied.
I have both a Windows and Linux MW localhost setup for testing, and I'd
enjoy equal functionality on both.
On 2/16/2015 4:45 PM, David Gerard wrote:
+1 on this. I've found MediaWIki on anything other than Linux (I've
also tried FreeBSD and Solaris) is something you can get to work
eventually, but you're fighting an uphill battle.
(The good bit in Linuxes compared to other Unixes is that they usually
have excellent dependency resolution. Tracking down all the bits on
sunfreeware to get rsvg to work on Solaris was ... interesting.)
On 16 February 2015 at 22:32, Tim Starling <[email protected]> wrote:
Valid reasons for using MediaWiki on Windows in this way are either:
* Your boss is making you do it, or
* You want a fun and difficult technical challenge.
Or preferably both. If neither apply, you should probably look at the
various ways of getting access to Linux, such as
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki-Vagrant
http://aws.amazon.com/free/
http://www.hostgator.com/apps/wiki-hosting
-- Tim Starling
On 16/02/15 18:49, Brenton Horne wrote:
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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