[Foundation-l] Automatic username transliteration for SUL

[Birgitte SB]

--- David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 21/12/06, Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org>
> wrote:
> 
> > So, if the homograph attack and idiot user problem
> is largely solved,
> > the main remaining problem appears to be
> accommodation of users who do
> > not have the right fonts installed.
> 
> 
> Note, by the way, that you can't even cut and paste
> a lot of Unicode
> reliably, as I found out recently trying to write an
> Uncyclopedia
> article (using the Wikia version of MediaWiki, which
> is pretty close
> to Wikimedia's) which contained a burst of
> deliberately-gibberish
> Unicode in the middle of Latin text [1].
> 
> This was on Seamonkey on Windows XP, and I had to
> experiment with
> cut'n'paste to get it to work at all without
> stripping high bits or
> turning the lot into "???????". I eventually did it
> by cutting from a
> text box and pasting to another text box.
> Copy-and-paste from the
> rendered wiki page did not work on this system.
> 
> Any solution must be able to accomodate system
> configurations that
> make up a noticeable fraction of the userbase, even
> if they are
> hopelessly broken by design, e.g. Windows XP
> English. A tooltip won't
> make it possible to *use* the username, only to view
> it. And despite
> GerardM's claims otherwise, we can't reasonably
> demand all en:wp
> admins run something sensible like Ubuntu because he
> claims user-ID
> numbers working would be dehumanising.
> 
> 
> - d.
> 
> [1]
>
http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/UnNews:Supreme_Court_declares_global_warming_unconstitutional
> ___________________________

I did a large amount of copying and pasting of all
kinds of fonts about a year ago when repairing the
broken links from the WS split. [1]  I never had a
problem with getting a usable link.  What exactly was
the problem you encountered?

Birgitte SB

[1]  An example edit. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yu_Fu&diff=prev&oldid=32504511

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