| NickK changed the title from "Wikidata does not accept lowercase Cyrillic х and several characters of other alphabets in labels/aliases/descriptions" to "Wikidata does not accept characters ending in \x85 (Cyrillic х, Armenian Յ, Arabic م etc.) in labels/aliases/descriptions". NickK edited the task description. (Show Details) |
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The problem was first reported here: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Cannot_add_an_alias . Basically any attempt to add a label, a description or an alias with a lowercase any character ending in \x85 in UTF-8 (Cyrillic х, Armenian Յ, Arabic م etc.) fails with an error message:
All other letters of Ukrainian alphabet, including uppercase Х seem to work correctly, only lowercase Cyrillic х is affected.
Same applies to some letters of other alphabets (Armenian, Bengali etc.) - see belowOther letters (not containing \x85 in UTF-8) do not seem to be affected
This is very critical (it affects capacity to edit Wikidata, as one or more (Armenian) letters of the alphabet cannot be used)
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For example, adding an alias "Венк фон Венкхейм" to https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q830544 fails.All other letters of Ukrainian alphabet, including uppercase Х seem to work correctly, only lowercase Cyrillic х is affected.
Same applies to some letters of other alphabets (Armenian, Bengali etc.) - see belowOther letters (not containing \x85 in UTF-8) do not seem to be affected
This is very critical (it affects capacity to edit Wikidata, as one or more (Armenian) letters of the alphabet cannot be used)
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Cc: Drbug, MaxBioHazard, Mahir256, TerraCodes, Jay8g, Aklapper, Base, NickK, Jrbranaa, QZanden, D3r1ck01, Izno, Wikidata-bugs, aude, Mbch331
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