Re: [Mediawiki-l] UTF support

2010-03-14 Thread Raymond Wan
Hi, Platonides wrote: > Look at your table definitions. If the CREATE TABLE contains DEFAULT > CHARSET=binary or DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8, you are using the first two, and > $wgDBmysql5 should be set. Else you are using the third one and > $wgDBmysql5 should be false. Ah, thanks -- I'll take a

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Breaking of URL with ' and ()

2010-03-14 Thread Platonides
Eric K wrote: > On many online systems (email interfaces, forums, social networks, CMS's), > URLs with brackets and apostrophes break very often. For example: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stayin'_Alive > If this URL is posted to Facebook, Facebook will render the URL link as: > http://en.wikiped

[Mediawiki-l] search broken

2010-03-14 Thread James K. Lowden
Search does not work on my new wiki. I'm using version 1.15.2 with SQLite. (I'm not talking about 3-letter searches as mentioned in the faq. *No* search returns any page.) Can I turn on a log to verify new pages are being indexed? How? Which tables hold the index data? If indexing isn't be

Re: [Mediawiki-l] Breaking of URL with ' and ()

2010-03-14 Thread Tim Landscheidt
Eric K wrote: > [Problems of computers (not) parsing human readable text] > So its a very common problem and because there are so many page titles with > these characters, there are likely thousands of links that break every day > from Wikipedia, other wikis and other websites. > We know ofcou

[Mediawiki-l] Breaking of URL with ' and ()

2010-03-14 Thread Eric K
On many online systems (email interfaces, forums, social networks, CMS's), URLs with brackets and apostrophes break very often. For example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stayin'_Alive If this URL is posted to Facebook, Facebook will render the URL link as: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stayin Simil

Re: [Mediawiki-l] UTF support

2010-03-14 Thread Platonides
Raymond Wan wrote: > Platonides wrote: >> MediaWiki offers you three character sets for MySQL: >>* MySQL 4.1/5.0 binary >>* MySQL 4.1/5.0 UTF-8 >>* MySQL 4.0 backwards-compatible UTF-8 > ... > > > Thank you for your explanation! I think I understand the differences between > the 3 opt