Wonderful news. Nice to see the follow up from the Dev Summit discussion about it, and to see an old and important problem being addressed thoroughly, and with consideration for backwards compatibility.
Thank you! בתאריך 8 ביולי 2017 03:31, "Max Semenik" <[email protected]> כתב: > Hey, the way non-Latin characters are displayed in section has always been > a serious complaint from our communities: > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T152540 > > Community tech has done some work in this area and it's ready to get more > eyeballs: > https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/362326/ > > A few words about implementation plan: > * There is now a concept of primary vs. fallback IDs. Primary are used for > linking, fallbacks are used so that old links still work. > * To transition to the new system, a wiki should first continue serving > legacy-encoded sections with new encoding as a fallback, then switch the > two after all older parser/HTTP caches have been filled with new HTML. > Legacy encoding should remain enabled as long as there is a noticeable > traffic using it, on WMF sites that probably means years. > * By default, MediaWiki will still behave exactly like before. Changing the > defaults to something more modern will be discussed later, after all the > initial issues are resolved. > * Because it's being used without escaping in so many places outside of > core and because there is now a fine distinction between ID escaping for > different purposes, Sanitizer::escapeId() is deprecated. It will never > output new encoding and should be replaced with one of escapeIdForHtml(), > escapeIdForLink() or escapeIdForExternalInterwiki() AFTER making sure it's > getting properly escaped. > > Your help reviewing/testing/discussing this is highly appreciated! > > -- > Best regards, > Max Semenik ([[User:MaxSem]]) > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
