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character conversion (tracking)
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Author: gangleri

Description:
This is a meta-bug to track dependencies and todos about MediaWiki's character
conversion.

Version: unspecified
Severity: normal

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bz3985

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StatusSubtypeAssignedTask
 InvalidNoneT5985 character conversion (tracking)
 ResolvedNoneT5819 strip phantom general punctuation characters from page titles
 DeclinedNoneT5887 create a special page for instring search of titles specifying %nn values
 ResolvedNoneT5860 links generated with precombined characters show red despite the fact that the normalised links exist
 InvalidNoneT5885 title normalisation
 OpenNoneT2323 Edits from various users active before 2003 are missing from Special:Contributions
 ResolvedLegoktmT5507 Invalid usernames on Wikimedia web sites
 ResolvedNoneT4290 Disallow usernames that are too similar to existing names (confusables, impersonation)
 DeclinedNoneT6012 Add flexible magic character conversion to the user interface
 InvalidNoneT6038 [[project:bugzilla/03860/š]] and [[project:bugzilla/03860/š]] should generate a [[MediaWiki:Badtitle]]
 ResolvedNoneT2660 Parallel use both of national specific characters and of "& # nnn ;"
 ResolvedNoneT7948 Bangla letter Nukta Problem
 ResolvedNoneT6185 feature request: provide a notification for irregular Unicode characters
 ResolvedNoneT4593 Non-printing characters allowed in registration
 ResolvedNoneT3524 Usernames should use unicode whitelist
 Resolved• brionT3225 False unicode-encoding in Database creates un-reachable image-description-page
 ResolvedNoneT2215 File-Uploads from MacOS X has Problems with UTF-8
 Resolved• brionT2240 Need to perform Unicode normalization
 ResolvedNoneT3527 *first* perform Unicode normalisation and check for existence of pages *after* the normalisation
 DeclinedNoneT4399 Unicode normalization "sorts" Hebrew/Arabic/Myanmar vowels wrongly
 ResolvedNoneT3512 magic character conversions in Esperanto cause problems with foreign words, interlanguage links
 ResolvedNoneT3679 Interwiki from UTF-8 to Latin-1 wiki is broken for U+0161
 ResolvedNoneT3881 windows-1252
 DeclinedNoneT7022 Uppercase for non-latin namespaces in Search:Go
 InvalidNoneT5611 keep Esperanto magical conversion for InterLanguage links in projects with content language = Esperanto
 InvalidNoneT5615 blocks of code not handling magic character conversions in Esperanto correcty (as reason for page deletion etc.)
 Resolved• brionT23781 Esperanto Magical conversion should be a part of Special:Preferences and deselectable at every page
 ResolvedNoneT30668 Narayam input method does not take effect in many input boxes

Event Timeline

• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 21 2014, 8:54 PM
• bzimport added projects: MediaWiki-Page-editing, Tracking-Neverending.
• bzimport set Reference to bz3985.
• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).
• bzimport created this task.Nov 15 2005, 9:59 PM
• werdna added a comment.Jul 29 2009, 4:38 PM

Adding 'tracking' keyword.

epriestley closed subtask T2323: Edits from various users active before 2003 are missing from Special:Contributions as Resolved.Mar 4 2015, 8:19 AM
TTO reopened subtask T2323: Edits from various users active before 2003 are missing from Special:Contributions as Open.Mar 4 2015, 10:17 AM
• Phabricator_maintenance removed a parent task: T4007: [DO NOT USE] Tracking bug [superseded by #Tracking].Jul 28 2016, 2:33 AM
Liuxinyu970226 subscribed.Feb 20 2017, 12:45 AM
Aklapper closed subtask T5615: blocks of code not handling magic character conversions in Esperanto correcty (as reason for page deletion etc.) as Invalid.Jun 9 2019, 4:51 PM
Aklapper closed this task as Invalid.Jun 9 2019, 4:56 PM
Aklapper subscribed.

Nothing tracked here anymore; nobody has added new subtasks for many years to this task, and afaik character conversion does not exist anymore.
Closing this unhelpful and unused tracking task as invalid.

Restricted Application removed a subscriber: Liuxinyu970226. · View Herald TranscriptJun 9 2019, 4:56 PM
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