There is an extremely hacky fix that is not recommend somewhere on Bugzilla/Phabricator, but otherwise, no.
This issue does not affect Linux or Mac users, but is unsolvable on Windows aside from that hacky fix (which is a pain to set up and can corrupt the database if I recall right). > Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 13:40:36 +1000 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Enabling special character file names > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
