Non a-z latin characters cause crashes when tapping links within article talk page messages and with
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	ABorbaWMF
	May 30 2025, 7:34 PM

Description

Steps to replicate the issue (include links if applicable):

Navigate to an article (example: https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%A7%E3%81%AE%E9%87%8C%E6%B3%B0%E8%BC%9D#) - or any talk page with links containing non-English characters
Navigate to the talk page
Tap on the links in talk page messages

What happens?:
The App crashes

What should have happened instead?:
No crashing

Software version (on Special:Version page; skip for WMF-hosted wikis like Wikipedia):
Tested on 7.7.6 (5357)
Other information (browser name/version, screenshots, etc.):
So far I have reproduced this on Japanese and German articles. I have not seen this on English articles yet. I am looking for additional crashes.

In the case of the example Japanese article, links are crashing when viewing the Japanese article. I do not see crashes on the English version of this article.

Test Steps

Fix can be tested in TestFlight 7.8.1 (5741)

Related Objects

Mentioned In: T401484: Release 7.8.1
T397477: [BUG] App crash on talk page load

Event Timeline

ABorbaWMF created this task.May 30 2025, 7:34 PM

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Mazevedo claimed this task.Jun 2 2025, 11:48 AM

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@ABorbaWMF I was able to reproduce this in any talk page link containing non-English characters (like ~ , ç , etc from Portuguese as well). It's happening on our App Store version, just noting this here so we know it wasn't caused by tabs.

mazevedofs opened https://github.com/wikimedia/wikipedia-ios/pull/5314

Mazevedo moved this task from Doing to Needs Code Review on the Wikipedia-iOS-App-Backlog (iOS Release FY2024-25) board.Jun 2 2025, 8:20 PM

l-olson1214 closed https://github.com/wikimedia/wikipedia-ios/pull/5314

Mazevedo moved this task from Needs Code Review to Waiting for Build on the Wikipedia-iOS-App-Backlog (iOS Release FY2024-25) board.Jun 3 2025, 2:39 PM

Can be tested on 7.7.6 (5374)

Fixed on 7.7.6 (5380)

HNordeenWMF moved this task from Ready for PM Signoff to Ready for Release on the Wikipedia-iOS-App-Backlog (iOS Release FY2024-25) board.Jun 10 2025, 3:56 PM

HNordeenWMF closed this task as Resolved.Jun 12 2025, 7:35 PM

I'm opening this one again as I had to revert my fix, adding to the tech debt sprint

Mazevedo triaged this task as Medium priority.Jun 26 2025, 1:50 PM

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Mazevedo mentioned this in T397477: [BUG] App crash on talk page load.Jun 27 2025, 6:48 PM

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Low priority - we have only received 1 user complaint

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Seddon renamed this task from Crash when tapping links within article talk page messages to Non a-z latin characters cause crashes when tapping links within article talk page messages and with .Aug 26 2025, 5:17 PM

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tonisevener opened https://github.com/wikimedia/wikipedia-ios/pull/5398

Tsevener moved this task from Doing to Needs Code Review on the Wikipedia-iOS-App-Backlog (Wikipedia iOS Release FY2025-26) board.Aug 26 2025, 8:43 PM

tonisevener closed https://github.com/wikimedia/wikipedia-ios/pull/5398

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