You might also consider looking into the charset handling cabalities (or lack thereof) of the perl functions you're using. They might be assuming ascii or latin1, and a bot slurping languages other than English is likely to encounter non-latin1. You might need to do some extra string-handling to convert between the charset that the server hands to the bot and the charset that the bot uses to talk with the target page.

Kynnin

On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 16:20:34 -0400 mediawiki-l@Wikimedia.org wrote:

On Apr 6, 2005, at 3:57pm, Rowan Collins wrote:

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I have no experience with it myself, but there's a bot framework written in Python at http://pywikipediabot.sf.net which has plenty of users on all sorts of wikis. At the very least, you might be able to find some hints as to how they dealt with that - there's also a mailling list for the project, at http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pywikipediabot-users

Thanks for reminding me about that. I had seen it before but, in the perhaps false hope of saving time, I thought I'd rather not get into learning Python at the moment. Perhaps I'll have to after all.

John Blumel

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