Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 13:12:35 +1000 From: brentonhorne77(a)gmail.com To: mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [MediaWiki-l] Enabling special character file names Hi I'd like to allow special characters in file names on my Wiki. For

currently I'd like some file names to include Greek letters like alpha

beta. In order to avoid being accused of using this list as my personal "Google" I am giving you the details of all my searches of Google and Wikimedia sites. I have checked https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T3780

I couldn't see any solutions to this problem. I was going to try https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T3780#60419 but after I searched SpecialUpload.php I did not find anywhere in the file with > if( $this->saveUploadedFile( in it, hence I couldn't even give it a try (granted that posted made

8 years ago). I also found https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/FileBackend after searching

FileBackend, as it was a popular topic in this thread, in a MediaWiki search but I hadn't the foggiest how it applied to what I wanted. I also saw

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>> > but I haven't a clue what the accepted answer meant for me. >> >> Thanks for your time, Brenton >> _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l >> mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l > mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

There is https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/125573/ It doesn't look too hacky to me, and it was rebased just a few months ago. Considering who the author is, it probably works. Note that img_auth.php needs to be used. There is an article about img_auth.php here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Image_Authorization On Bugzilla there are a lot of suggestions to use iconv() to convert to some random 8-bit character set, which doesn't seem like a great idea to me. I find it somewhat ironic that it's necessary to encode to ASCII on Windows, given that the Windows has been natively UCS-2/UTF-16 since the introduction of the Win32 API, whereas Linux has never had proper character set support. -- Tim Starling On 14/02/15 15:15, Arcane 21 wrote: > There is an extremely hacky fix that is not recommend somewhere on > Bugzilla/Phabricator, but otherwise, no. > > This issue does not affect Linux or Mac users, but is unsolvable on > Windows aside from that hacky fix (which is a pain to set up and > can corrupt the database if I recall right). > >> Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 13:40:36 +1000 From: >> brentonhorne77(a)gmail.com To: mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >> Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Enabling special character file names >> >> Yeah I'm running Windows. So I'm guessing there's no known way >> of overcoming this issue? >> >> On 14 February 2015 at 13:34, Arcane 21 <arcane(a)live.com> wrote: >> >>> Small correction to previous message: Windows. >>> >>> From what I understand, Windows based systems have trouble >>> parsing certain characters when MediaWiki is run on a WAMP >>> stack due to the Windows settings for saving filenames. >>> >>> From: arcane(a)live.com To: mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>> Subject: RE: [MediaWiki-l] Enabling special character file >>> names Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 21:32:58 -0600 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Is your web stack on a Wnodws based system? If so, they have >>> known issues with special character file names. >>> >>>> Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 13:12:35 +1000 From: >>>> brentonhorne77(a)gmail.com To: mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>>> Subject: [MediaWiki-l] Enabling special character file names >>>> >>>> Hi >>>> >>>> I'd like to allow special characters in file names on my >>>> Wiki. For >>> example, >>>> currently I'd like some file names to include Greek letters >>>> like alpha >>> and >>>> beta. In order to avoid being accused of using this list as >>>> my personal "Google" I am giving you the details of all my >>>> searches of Google and Wikimedia sites. I have checked >>>> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T3780 >>> but >>>> I couldn't see any solutions to this problem. I was going to >>>> try https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T3780#60419 but after I >>>> searched SpecialUpload.php I did not find anywhere in the >>>> file with >>>> >>>>> if( $this->saveUploadedFile( >>>> in it, hence I couldn't even give it a try (granted that >>>> posted made >>> almost >>>> 8 years ago). >>>> >>>> I also found https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/FileBackend after >>>> searching >>> for >>>> FileBackend, as it was a popular topic in this thread, in a >>>> MediaWiki search but I hadn't the foggiest how it applied to >>>> what I wanted. I also saw >>>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4138705/mediawiki-special-characters-in-… >>> but I haven't a clue what the accepted answer meant for me. >>>> Thanks for your time, Brenton >>>> _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l >>>> mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l >>> _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l >>> mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l >>> >> _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l >> mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l > mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l > _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l