We have a Farsi wikipedia user whose Wikipedia username shows up as '???' - smells like an encoding issue somewhere.
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| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolved | jsn.sherman | T147434 Version 1.5: Beta fixes | |||
| Resolved | ThatAndromeda | T149739 Handle encoding issue for non-ascii names |
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This turned out to be a ridiculous thing rooted in MySQL's inability to do utf-8 correctly. I've updated the database settings, documented them, and added a workaround to the Django settings file. I don't know the user's actual username so I can't fix it, but if you run across this in future and you *do* know the correct username, you can update it through the admin interface.
New accounts going forward should be fine.