On Dec 23, 2004, at 2:04 PM, Petr Kadlec wrote:
We have a problem with 1.4 on cs: Wikipedia. The linktrail seems not to work correctly since the upgrade. Although the MediaWiki:Linktrail still contains the same regexp /^((?:[a-z]|á|č|ď|é|ě|í|ň|ó|ř|š|ť|ú|ů|ý|ž)+)(.*)$/sD as before, all links are now terminated at the first non-ASCII character. See e.g. the last word of the initial paragraph of http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kone%C4%8Dn%C3%BD_automat .
Using a MediaWiki message as a raw regular expression isn't safe; a broken expression could break the wiki in annoying ways. Additionally the message lookup required message cache initialization which doubled the runtime of cached page views. The hardcoded linktrail in the language files is now used for security and performance reasons.
I've updated ru, cs, and fr as requested.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)