Michael added a comment.
We can't fix it where I would like to fix it: name=RequestContext::getLanguage() // There are certain characters we don't allow in language code strings, // but by and large almost any valid UTF-8 string will makes it past // this check and the LanguageNameUtils::isValidCode method it uses. // This is to support on-wiki interface message overrides for // non-existent language codes. Also known as "Uselang hacks". // See <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Uselang_hack> // For something like "en-whatever" or "de-whatever" it will end up // with a mostly "en" or "de" interface, but with an extra layer of // possible MessageCache overrides from `MediaWiki:*/<code>` titles. // While non-ASCII works here, it is required that they are in // NFC form given this will not convert to normalised form. $code = self::sanitizeLangCode( $code ); The reasoning more better explained in T39564#407711 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T39564#407711>: > See implementation of Language::isValidCode, which explicitly doesn't check whether a language exists, in order to allow {{int:}} hacks such as historically used on Wikimedia Commons to provide an extra dimension of interface customisation: > > https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Upload&uselang=ownwork > https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Upload&uselang=fromflickr > https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Upload&uselang=fromgov > > So until we decide do no longer support that, it makes sense to have this consistently reflected throughout and not make a weird exception just for <html lang> but not anywhere else. I'll keep looking. There must be some place that lends itself to throwing out everything except a valid language code. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T250930 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: Michael Cc: WMDE-leszek, Addshore, Aklapper, Iflorez, darthmon_wmde, alaa_wmde, Nandana, Lahi, Gq86, GoranSMilovanovic, QZanden, LawExplorer, _jensen, rosalieper, Scott_WUaS, Jonas, Wikidata-bugs, aude, Lydia_Pintscher, Mbch331
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