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(a)Wikimedia.org wrote:
On Apr 6, 2005, at 3:57pm, Rowan Collins wrote:
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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