[Mediawiki-l] Changing password for user with special utf characters in name

[Dan Nessett]

On Sun, 18 Dec 2011 18:44:38 -0800, Brion Vibber wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 9:52 PM, Dan Nessett <dnessett at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>> I am trying to use changePassword.php to change the password of a user
>> (who has forgotten his password). The name of the user has the spanish
>> character tilde-n in it (UTF-8 \xF1). However, I can't figure out how
>> to specify this character in the --user= value. When I try to use \xF1,
>> the maintenance script sees it as the literal character string "xF1".
>> If I use \\xF1, the script sees the literal character sring "\xF1". I
>> can't figure out how to get the script to accept the unicode string
>> encoding.
>>
>>
> If you have a normal UTF-8 terminal, just type or cut-n-paste the "ñ"
> however you normally would. If for some reason this isn't available
> (sounds like you're expecting an 8-bit locale on your terminal?), I'd
> recommend using the user-id with the --userid parameter instead. :)
> 
> -- brion
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Thanks, but it appears the --userid parameter appears in MW versions 
later than 1.16.5. Anyway, I was able to locate a utf-8 enabled terminal 
and got the password changed.

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-- Dan Nessett