Description: At step 4, if the list of items contains Chinese characters, creating a share link fails.

Replicate :

• Step 4 > Local list : click > Select: List:Test/Rich_format-zh
• Step 4 > Share list : click > Currently fails !

Suspects :

• Mariadb tables and/or columns requires unicode support ?
• /upload_batches/models.py

#TODO, UTF: Make sure it is compatible with UTF-encoded texts

• lingualibre/settings.py :

1. UTF: somehow MariaDB on Toolforge will not handle unicode properly without the following two lines
2. Ref: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Toolforge/My_first_Django_OAuth_tool#:~:text=connection%20as%20follows%3A-,DATABASES,-%3D%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20%27default

Ask ChatGPT :

Hello Mentor,
My mariadb has a field which must store characters.
When my inputs only includes ASCII characters, all works.
When my input includes Chinese characters, it fails.
What should I do ?
Keep your answer concise.