I made a patch [0] for T39665 [1] about 6 months ago. It has been rotting in gerrit since.
The core bug is related to glibc's iconv implementation and PHP (and HHVM as well I think). To work around the iconv bug I wrote a little helper function that will use mb_convert_encoding() instead if it is present. in review PleaseStand pointed out that the libmbfl used by mb_convert_encoding has some differences in the supported character sets and character set naming [2] vs iconv. I was hoping that someone on this list could step in and either convince me to abandon this patch and pretend I never investigated the problem or help design a solution that will plaster over these differences in a reasonable way. [0]: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/172101/ [1]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T39665 [2]: https://php.net/manual/en/mbstring.encodings.php Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation <bd...@wikimedia.org> [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Sr Software Engineer Boise, ID USA irc: bd808 v:415.839.6885 x6855 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
