On Feb 22, 2008, at 4:29 PM, Platonides wrote:
Jim Hu wrote:
I'm an idiot... I pasted [[A→B]] in and it
worked for me! I kept
trying to encode it instead of using it directly. Doh! Thanks.
Unfortunately I now find a problem with how the arrow is handled by
my
intermediate mysql db, which is converting it to some horrid
combination of other characters. It's always something!
Jim
Your intermediate db is showing it as latin1 isntead of treating it as
utf8. As far as it isn't mangled you can work with them, or perhaps
conveniently translate the 'separator'.
My brain always fogs over with encoding issues. I see that page_title
in the MW schema I'm using is latin1_bin, but it handles the arrow.
The page_title in my intermediate db is utf8_bin.
As I think about this, I am putting it on the back burner. To do this
right, I have to make sure that the links to pages containing arrows
also work properly, which means delving into other parts of the
scripts. The problem clearly isn't a MW problem, though, so I'll go
back at some point to trying to rework my own hacky code.
Thanks!
Jim
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