On Tuesday, 29th August 2006 at 17:27:41 (GMT -0400), David Pace wrote: No, that won't help. We couldn't even get basic integration working: none of our users with diacritic letters in their username could log into the wiki. Besides, the solution at the above link only attempts basic integration of user tables, nothing more. Wang Jerry's wishes are immodest indeed, and they sound like science fiction to me... Maybe in 2010 or 2015 these things will be possible, not today, alas... -- Yours, Alex. [processed by "The Bat!", Version 3.80.06] (MediaWiki: 1.6.8 / PHP: 4.4.1 (cgi) / MySQL: 4.1.19-standard) http://vincentdepaul.sk/skola _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Easy solution (from a moving forwards point of view): get everyone to change usernames to ones that MediaWiki can handle, and use the Restrict Username stuff on the PHPBB side.

it could well be that MediaWiki is expecting to find latin1 data, in which it wraps UTF-8 data regardless, and does some encoding/ unencoding work each end. If it doesn't know that the database table it's reading is using UTF-8 collation, then it is bound to bugger up the usernames, no?

Thanx for your help, guys. As an idealist person, I would love to pose the goal high and then, with comprehensive research, re-adjust its position properly. I have read your instructions and meanwhile searched the internet. I think this requested feature does be immodest. Instead of finding the perfect solution, I am trying to figure out which of these features I can achieve to the best of my abilities. Thanks again to everyone. I hope we can keep talking on this issue to find out a better view on how good and how much we can possibly achieve by now. 2006/8/30, wiki(a)avenarius.sk <wiki(a)avenarius.sk>sk>: _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Are you aware of LiquidThreads? http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Liquid_Threads It sounds like it is almost usable now. From the coder's blog: http://davidmccabe.blogspot.com/ "Well, today the Google gig is over. Don't worry; I intend to stick with the project at least until LQT is on the English Wikipedia. The status of the project is: * There is an alpha that works now. * I am refactoring the program; it will be significantly more flexible and maintainable in a week or two when that is finished. * LQT will need to work in multiple modes and configurations. For example, on some sites they don't want nested threads, but on others they need it. With the new design I just mentioned, both groups can be satisfied. * We are scrapping several features, most notably the arbitrary ordering of comments, for the time being. Nobody seems to care about them, they're difficult to protect from abuse, and they can be added later. * I am contemplating how categories or something like them could be used together with saved searches or something like them to make life on Wikipedia a lot easier. " On 8/30/06, Wang Jerry <wkbjerry(a)gmail.com> wrote: -- Felix Andrews / 安福立 Beijing Bag, Locked Bag 40, Kingston ACT 2604 Building 48A, Linnaeus Way, The Australian National University ACT 0200 Australia http://www.neurofractal.org/felix/ mailto:felix@nfrac.org voice:+86_1051404394 (in China) mobile:+86_13439575331 (in China) mobile:+61_410400963 (in Australia) xmpp:foolish.android@gmail.com #xmpp:floybix@jabber.cn (in China) #xmpp:foolish@jabber.org.au (in Australia) 3358 543D AAC6 22C2 D336 80D9 360B 72DD 3E4C F5D8 _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l