Dan, it wasn’t meant to be an accusation, believe me. Also, let me take this opportunity
to thank you all for this excellent tool.
Cheers
From: wikimetrics-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org
[mailto:wikimetrics-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Dan Andreescu
Sent: Sunday, May 31, 2015 2:28 PM
To: wikimetrics(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikimetrics] How to report a problem?
Thanks a lot, this indeed seems to have been the root of all problems. Wikimetrics now
works like a charm, not a single error this time. On a wider note, many American-designed
pieces of software have a problem with non-Latin 1 characters (for instance both Picasa
and Content Translation had Alt+s shortcut reserved for saving, whereas it’s the only way
most of us write ą, one of the letters of the Polish alphabet). I wouldn’t have guessed
that the problem here might be with the very existence of non-Latin 1 signs anywhere in
the data. Thanks for spotting it – and for your assistance.
Cheers
This is actually not as American-centric as would seem on the surface. We really worked
very *very* hard to design Wikimetrics to account for any unicode characters. It's
just that Python 2 is *the worst* language in the world at dealing with this problem
(except maybe assembly?) And sadly the mysql python driver seems determined to never
support Python 3.
As the guy who chose these libraries unaware of the terrible unicode handling, I want to
take this opportunity to apologize :) And to say that we're not ignoring unicode,
it's just complicated.