On Sat, 17 Dec 2011 21:52:27 -0800, Dan Nessett <dnessett(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
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?
Quite simply, this will depend entirely on your shell. Character escapes
just like 'asdf' vs "asdf" vs asdf and things like {foo,bar} and * are
all
handled at the shell level so the answer is whatever method your shell
uses.
In some cases you might actually be able to just copy and paste the
unicode character in.
If all else fails in your attempts to figure out how to get your shell to
pass the unicode in changePassword.php accepts a --userid parameter you
can use instead of the username.
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~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [
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