Documentation about character coding and conversion in MediaWiki
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	• bzimport
	Dec 25 2007, 6:12 AM

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Author: gangleri

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Dear friends;

I did not come across this issue. In order to define a unique sort criteria in categories ( see http://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Sort_key/ and http://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Sort_key/#comments ) I needed a character which is not allowed in page titles but which is accepted in MediaWiki.

questions:

a1) is this legal?
a2) if not it probably will change at some point in time?

b1) is this included in the documentation?
b2) where?

Best regards Reinhardt [[user:Gangleri]]

P.S. MediaZilla is *not* a forum. Allow me one related question:

c1) where is the documentation about character normalisation / conversion?

Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
Whiteboard: aklapper-moreinfo
URL: http://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:Sort_key/#character_test

• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Lowest.Nov 21 2014, 10:01 PM

• bzimport set Reference to bz12410.

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This is a very old bug report, never addressed. Probably fixed?

Is this still a problem in current MediaWiki installations?

(In reply to comment #0)

In order to define a unique sort criteria in categories I needed a character
which is not allowed in page titles but which is accepted in MediaWiki.

This sounds like a gross hack to me.
Explaining what you try to achieve (concrete example) would be good.

a1) is this legal?

What is "this" here?
The current situation, or the use of those three characters for sorting?

a2) if not it probably will change at some point in time?

No guarantees.

At this point, what is the enhancement requested in this report? To document a current behavior or to change something?

Marking as Lowest since this seems to reflect the situation better.

Unfortunately closing this report as no further information has been provided.

lɛʁi: Please feel free to reopen this report if you can provide the information asked for in comment 3, and if this still happens. Thanks!