Gerard Meijssen wrote:
Hoi, This small Unicode issue is a show stopper. When software is suggested that only works on Latin script, you do not appreciate the amount of work that is done in other scripts using the MediaWiki software.
Apart from that why would it be boring.. this is a technical list. Personally I am interested in two things as well, what other projects are you referring to and how you want to see this attribution done.
I discussed unicode support with the original poster on IRC. I couldn't get through to him that adding UTF-8 support to a PHP application is trivial, and requires no special UTF-8 support within PHP itself. MediaWiki's UTF-8 support is mostly implemented from scratch using PHP's binary-safe string handling. My wikidiff2 module in C++ also contains a simple UTF-8 decoder within the word splitting routine. It's not difficult.
-- Tim Starling