On 7/4/2012 2:45 PM, Brandon Pimenta wrote:
Well I still use MediaWiki 1.17.3 and it turns out it
doesn't have many
problems. It has no problem displaying special characters.
1.17 (June 2011) is a lot more recent than than 1.10 (May 2007). While
your version is only a year behind 1.19, the version the original poster
is using is 5 years behind. (I would encourage you, too, to upgrade to
1.19 since it is slated for Ubuntu-like "long term support.")
A *lot* of work has been done on support for "special character"
support. Looking at the release notes for MW versions after 1.10 for
(possibly) relevant fixes that are in 1.17, I came up with the following:
* (bug 16697) Unicode combining characters are difficult to edit in some
browsers.
* (bug 8445) Multiple-character search terms are now handled properly
for Chinese.
* (bug 15248) Non-breaking spaces and certain other Unicode space
characters are now normalized to ordinary spaces in titles; if your wiki
has existing titles with such characters, run cleanupTitles.php and/or
cleanupImages.php
* (bug 8143) Localised parser function names are now correctly case
insensitive if they contain non-ASCII characters
* Truncate summary of page moves in revision comment field to avoid
broken multibyte characters
* Updated Unicode normalization tables
* (bug 14952) Page titles are renormalized after html entities are
removed so that links with non-NFC character references work correctly.
* (bug 3097) Inconsistently usable titles containing HTML character
entities are now forbidden. A run of cleanupTitles.php will fix up
existing pages.
HTH,
Mark.
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