Yeah I'm running Windows. So I'm guessing there's no known way of
overcoming this issue?

On 14 February 2015 at 13:34, Arcane 21 <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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
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