[Mediawiki-l] Extension:FileIndexer has issue with accented characters

[Mark (Markie)]

as the notes on the page you link to says, pdftotext package doesnt have a
"-" sign so this may be an issue similar to this.

regards

mark


On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Francois Piette <
francois.piette at overbyte.be> wrote:

> Hi !
>
> I have installed the Extension:FileIndexer new variant
>  (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension_talk:FileIndexer#New_Variant)
> from
> Ramon Dohle (raZe) on my version 1.12 and it works well for english text.
> When I upload a PDF file containing french accented characters such as
> e-acute ("é"), those are wrongly indexed and show on the file upload page.
>
> I've looked inside the wiki database (table wikiprefix_searchindex, column
> si_text) and found that an e-acute is represented as the string "u8c3a9"
> for
> any standard page while it is represented by "u8efbfbd" for the uploaded
> PDF
> entry. Actually any accented character is represented by "u8efbfbd" ! Of
> course searching doesn't work with such caracter substitution.
>
> "u8c3a9" is actually the code for UTF-8. I'm not sure about "u8efbfbd" but
> it seems is it a kind of placer holder.
>
> Any advice appreciated.
> --
> francois.piette at overbyte.be
> Author of ICS (Internet Component Suite, freeware)
> Author of MidWare (Multi-tier framework, freeware)
> http://www.overbyte.be
>
>
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