Prevent PUA characters in titles (Unicode Private Use Areas)
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	Skalman
	Apr 29 2016, 5:02 PM

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Rationale:
Someone created an entry on https://sv.wiktionary.org/wiki/%EE%80%84 (code point e004), likely believing that the character that they saw in their font was a standard character. We would like to allow only valid Unicode characters in titles.

Perhaps it would be possible to add something to either $wgLegalTitleChars or [[MediaWiki:Titleblacklist]].

Expected result:
User is prevented from creating a page with a title containing PUA characters.

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Mentioned Here: T44807: Invisible Unicode characters allowed on pagetitle (\u200E | \uFEFF | \u200B)

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Skalman created this task.Apr 29 2016, 5:02 PM

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Aklapper removed projects: Wikimedia-Site-requests, MediaWiki-Internationalization.

Skalman renamed this task from Prevent PUA characters in titles (Private Use Areas) to Prevent PUA characters in titles (Unicode Private Use Areas).Apr 29 2016, 5:04 PM

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I figured out how to do this with the title blacklist:

I still think this should be done by default.

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