Hi, I think the problem is that langlinks did/can/could use &#xxxx;
https://no.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Om&diff=9814748&oldid=9792310 However, those &'s dont appear to be in the current API langlinks results for the old revision. https://no.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=langlinks&revids=9792310&lllimit=max But I wouldnt be surprised if the MW 1.18 API did literally emit the langlinks unparsed. Just as MW API currently emits #redirect targets unparsed. On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 7:42 AM, Fabian Neundorf <commodorefabia...@gmx.de> wrote: > I've been working on html2unicode in the last days and I stumbled upon > the fact that a & also works as a normal ampersand, so that > &amp; for example gets converted into &. Now the commit which > introduced it into core (fc61025 [1]) is not really descriptive so I > searched in compat's code and found the corresponding commit f97dfb0 > [2]. > > There it links to the discussion on @xqt's talk page [3] which doesn't > really explain what is happening there. The API never returns HTML > entities unless it's the content of a page. I've been testing [4] such > a link and [[&]] does work but not [[&amp;]]. Also the entitey > gets properly encoded, but [[&nbsp;]] also only once. > > My question here is why is it necessary and especially in core which > only does API requests which shouldn't suffer from such a problem it > could be changed probably. The only reason I see if something is > decoding text improperly and converts into &nbsp; which > shouldn't be our concern. > > Fabian > > [1]: > https://github.com/wikimedia/pywikibot-core/commit/fc6102527e4c556cd77aa87736869a3510b0b7d5 > [2]: > https://git.wikimedia.org/blobdiff/pywikibot%2Fcompat.git/f97dfb0d1ca49751ccf615e5082c1c4df5655d40/wikipedia.py > [3]: > https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Benutzer_Diskussion%3AXqt&action=historysubmit&diff=96907484&oldid=96904091 > [4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:XZise/linktest > > _______________________________________________ > Pywikipedia-l mailing list > Pywikipedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikipedia-l -- John Vandenberg _______________________________________________ Pywikipedia-l mailing list Pywikipedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikipedia-l
