Small correction to previous message: Windows. From what I understand, Windows based systems have trouble parsing certain characters when MediaWiki is run on a WAMP stack due to the Windows settings for saving filenames.
From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [MediaWiki-l] Enabling special character file names Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 21:32:58 -0600 Is your web stack on a Wnodws based system? If so, they have known issues with special character file names. > Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 13:12:35 +1000 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: [MediaWiki-l] Enabling special character file names > > Hi > > I'd like to allow special characters in file names on my Wiki. For example, > currently I'd like some file names to include Greek letters like alpha and > beta. In order to avoid being accused of using this list as my personal > "Google" I am giving you the details of all my searches of Google and > Wikimedia sites. I have checked https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T3780 but > I couldn't see any solutions to this problem. I was going to try > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T3780#60419 but after I searched > SpecialUpload.php I did not find anywhere in the file with > > > if( $this->saveUploadedFile( > > in it, hence I couldn't even give it a try (granted that posted made almost > 8 years ago). > > I also found https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/FileBackend after searching for > FileBackend, as it was a popular topic in this thread, in a MediaWiki > search but I hadn't the foggiest how it applied to what I wanted. I also > saw > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4138705/mediawiki-special-characters-in-file-name-issue > but I haven't a clue what the accepted answer meant for me. > > Thanks for your time, > Brenton > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > To unsubscribe, go to: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
