https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33643
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Bug #: 33643
Summary: Turkish need lc / uc methods
Product: MediaWiki
Version: 1.19-svn
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: Internationalization
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
CC: [email protected], [email protected]
Classification: Unclassified
Split from bug 31490.
Our Turkish language class lacks proper implementation of lc() and uc() for
that language. It uses a dotted i and a dotless i, which mean that I and i are
actually different letter in that language!
An implementation was deployed on wmf wiki for 1.18 but it was reverted by
r99289 & r99290. The reason is that it broke magic words and related parser
functions (i.e. {{#lcfirst}}) on the turkish wikis.
The MediaWiki code handling magic words normalize then to lower case using the
content language (look for lc() calls in MagicWord class). Hence a magic word
such as lcfirst is treated just like a turkish word and end up upper cased with
a dotted i.
Two possibilities:
- magic words could optionally be made an array referencing the language. Then
we could use that language thus using the proper lc / uc implementations
- for turkish language, forge magic words aliases having dotted or dot less i.
i.e. 'ucfirst' (with dot) could have an alias UCFIRST (without dot). Both would
then be valid.
Optionally, parser functions could use a parameter to change the language being
used. This would let Turkish project to use the English lc / uc function, for
example to upper case iPhone to IPhone (dotless i).
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