Hi,
I upgraded to 1.4 right now and so far it works fine. But I have problem with dates. As you can see in the attachement, though "Feb" is displayed correctly there seems to be a problem with march, which is "März" in german. It is simply displayed as "M?2005" - even in html-source.
I have no idea, where it could come from. There is no problem with umlauts in the upgraded articles and I chose the same encoding: de-latin1.
Does anyone have an idea?
Regards, Oliver.
Hi,
Oliver Kuhl wrote:
I upgraded to 1.4 right now and so far it works fine. But I have problem with dates. As you can see in the attachement, though "Feb" is displayed correctly there seems to be a problem with march, which is "März" in german. It is simply displayed as "M?2005" - even in html-source.
I have no idea, where it could come from. There is no problem with umlauts in the upgraded articles and I chose the same encoding: de-latin1.
Does anyone have an idea?
sorry. No attachements allowed here. I hope you know what I'm talking about without a screenshot.
Regards, Oliver.
The Mediawiki interwiki table is defined by default as follows:
mysql> describe interwiki -> ; +-----------+------------+------+-----+---------+-------+ | Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra | +-----------+------------+------+-----+---------+-------+ | iw_prefix | char(32) | | PRI | | | | iw_url | char(127) | | | | | | iw_local | tinyint(1) | | | 0 | | +-----------+------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
I was trying to put a very long address into the iw_url field which exceeds the limit of 127 chars by a good margin, so I need to extend the iw_url field.
Now for the question - are there any other changes that are needed to to make this work?
Thanks in advance,
Ralf
Ralf Baechle wrote:
I was trying to put a very long address into the iw_url field which exceeds the limit of 127 chars by a good margin, so I need to extend the iw_url field.
Now for the question - are there any other changes that are needed to to make this work?
Shouldn't be; just go ahead and change the table definition.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 08:59:52 +0100, Oliver Kuhl okuhl@netcologne.de wrote:
I upgraded to 1.4 right now and so far it works fine. But I have problem with dates. As you can see in the attachement, though "Feb" is displayed correctly there seems to be a problem with march, which is "März" in german. It is simply displayed as "M?2005" - even in html-source.
Could this be a corruption in the LanguageDe.php file (look in the 'languages' sub-dir), or (less likely given that articles are OK) in a [[MediaWiki: ...]] page (look at [[Special:Allmessages]])? I know people before (particularly on Macs) have had problems with their FTP programs downloading things in "text mode" and mangling anything UTF-8.
I think this could well result in that behaviour, because a bad byte in a multibyte encoding can easily cause the browser to treat several characters as part of the same one, which will then likely be unavailable in any installed font ("£" misrendered as Chinese does that to me all the time; irritating as hell if you're trying to look at UK shopping sites!)
Hi,
Rowan Collins wrote:
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 08:59:52 +0100, Oliver Kuhl okuhl@netcologne.de wrote:
I upgraded to 1.4 right now and so far it works fine. But I have problem with dates. As you can see in the attachement, though "Feb" is displayed correctly there seems to be a problem with march, which is "März" in german. It is simply displayed as "M?2005" - even in html-source.
Could this be a corruption in the LanguageDe.php file (look in the 'languages' sub-dir), or (less likely given that articles are OK) in a [[MediaWiki: ...]] page (look at [[Special:Allmessages]])? I know people before (particularly on Macs) have had problems with their FTP programs downloading things in "text mode" and mangling anything UTF-8.
the language file seems to be ok. The umlauts are in UTF-8 there. I used wget on FreeBSD to download the archive.
I think this could well result in that behaviour, because a bad byte in a multibyte encoding can easily cause the browser to treat several characters as part of the same one, which will then likely be unavailable in any installed font ("£" misrendered as Chinese does that to me all the time; irritating as hell if you're trying to look at UK shopping sites!)
The strange thing is, that other umlauts seems to be ok - like "meine beiträge" (my contributions), all the umlauts in the articles, menutexts, etc.
I use Firefox 1.0 with ISO-8859-1 as encoding. Even in the html-source, there is no umlaut, UTF-8, etc. Simply "23. M?2005" without any non ASCII characters.
Regards, Oliver.
Oliver Kuhl wrote:
The strange thing is, that other umlauts seems to be ok - like "meine beiträge" (my contributions), all the umlauts in the articles, menutexts, etc.
I use Firefox 1.0 with ISO-8859-1 as encoding. Even in the html-source, there is no umlaut, UTF-8, etc. Simply "23. M?2005" without any non ASCII characters.
It sounds like a problem with double-conversion in the Latin-1 mode. File a bug report to make sure it doesn't get forgotten (there's a similar issue with preferences which may or may not have been fixed by now).
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
Hi,
Brion Vibber wrote:
The strange thing is, that other umlauts seems to be ok - like "meine beiträge" (my contributions), all the umlauts in the articles, menutexts, etc.
I use Firefox 1.0 with ISO-8859-1 as encoding. Even in the html-source, there is no umlaut, UTF-8, etc. Simply "23. M?2005" without any non ASCII characters.
It sounds like a problem with double-conversion in the Latin-1 mode. File a bug report to make sure it doesn't get forgotten (there's a similar issue with preferences which may or may not have been fixed by now).
I'm not really shure if it is a bug - wikipedia.de is displaying '23. Mär 2005' correctly. But maybe it isn't running in Latin-1. So here comes the bugreport: http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1744
Regards, Oliver.
I think your previous content was in iso-8859-1 and now you are in utf-8
Two solutions: 1) it 's just because u changed your browser default encoding -check by going in *Display* (entschuldingung, ich hab das deutsche Name vergessen) *encoding* and choose entweder iso8859-1 oder utf-8 2)It's your mediawiki which is not in utf8 -go in Localhsettings.php and find the correct line (iso8859-1 --> utf-8)
François (accents are a pain in an english computer world :-))
Oliver Kuhl wrote:
Hi,
I upgraded to 1.4 right now and so far it works fine. But I have problem with dates. As you can see in the attachement, though "Feb" is displayed correctly there seems to be a problem with march, which is "März" in german. It is simply displayed as "M?2005" - even in html-source.
I have no idea, where it could come from. There is no problem with umlauts in the upgraded articles and I chose the same encoding: de-latin1.
Does anyone have an idea?
Regards, Oliver.
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