It works fine for us - we have MW running in English with pages in Japanese, Chinese and Korean. No problems from users and/or editors in these languages either. We are on: * MediaWiki: 1.5.5 * PHP: 4.3.10-16 (apache) * MySQL: 4.1.11-Debian_4sarge2-log
Paul
On 2/6/06, muyuubyou muyuubyou@gmail.com wrote:
In such case, either the chinese and japanese versions at wikipedia aren't using mySQL4, or they're not using only the default installer. Out of the box, it doesn't work. Plain and simple. I can know point you to several sites having this same problem and I reckon some of them have just jumped to alternative wiki packages.
I'm sure it works out of the box for latin_1 compatible languages (i.e. most other than asian languages and a couple exotic others). But this may not be enough.
Google tells me you are one of the programmers, so I kindly ask you to give this a look. I would do it myself, but I'm new to mediawiki and it would be best if someone with deep understanding of its code and dependencies did it. Of course when you have the time.
I have another little issue: firefox doesn't post chinese/japanese/korean name titles properly (mangles encoding) while Opera and IE does. I haven't tried mac versions because the woman has the mac on a trip, but opera for linux works too. Realistically (and sadly), most visitors will be using IE, so maybe it's not too bad. Maybe there are people dedicated to i18n and testing? Not sure what this is, but I might research it myself if there isn't a known fix somewhere I don't know. For now, I'm just adding pages with a compatible browser and mozilla users will be limited to browsing and editing for now. Not that the site is public yet, we're just two people using it now... it will be under testing for a week or so.
Please understand the not-so-polite (but also not too rude) tone in my previous email, I was very frustrated... I expected to use that time adding content instead. During weekdays I'll too darned busy :(
On 2/5/06, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
muyuubyou wrote:
Please somebody, warn about mySQL4 being not properly tested in bold
font in
the requirements section.
We've used MySQL 4 in production for years.
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