[Mediawiki-l] Changing password for user with special utf characters in name

[Dan Nessett]

I am trying to use changePassword.php to change the password of a user 
(who has forgotten his password). The name of the user has the spanish 
character tilde-n in it (UTF-8 \xF1). However, I can't figure out how to 
specify this character in the --user= value. When I try to use \xF1, the 
maintenance script sees it as the literal character string "xF1". If I 
use \\xF1, the script sees the literal character sring "\xF1". I can't 
figure out how to get the script to accept the unicode string encoding.

Any ideas?


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-- Dan Nessett