Re: [Wikitech-l] Non-latin characters broken in donation comments

2008-12-03 Thread Roan Kattouw
mizusumashi schreef: By the way, I sent some mails to ML wikitech-l. But they are not in the Archive. Why? Mails don't always show up immediately. Also, the archives are grouped per month, so you may have been trying to find e-mails sent in late November in the December archives. Roan

Re: [Wikitech-l] Non-latin characters broken in donation comments

2008-12-03 Thread Brion Vibber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 mizusumashi wrote: I see that some (maybe all) Japanese names are correctly displayed. I am very glad thanks to your work. Yay! But I have a very few dissatisfaction. Surname are displayed after personal name. As you know, in east Asia we

Re: [Wikitech-l] Non-latin characters broken in donation comments

2008-12-03 Thread Brion Vibber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brion Vibber wrote: mizusumashi wrote: I see that some (maybe all) Japanese names are correctly displayed. I am very glad thanks to your work. Yay! But I have a very few dissatisfaction. Surname are displayed after personal name. As you

Re: [Wikitech-l] Non-latin characters broken in donation comments

2008-12-03 Thread Roan Kattouw
Bence Damokos schreef: Thank you for considering Hungarian. You could detect Hungarians by simply looking for donations in Hungarian Forints (HUF). Note that not all people who live in Hungary have Hungarian names, and not all Hungarians live in Hungary. Roan Kattouw (Catrope)

Re: [Wikitech-l] Non-latin characters broken in donation comments

2008-12-03 Thread Bence Damokos
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 10:01 PM, Roan Kattouw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bence Damokos schreef: Thank you for considering Hungarian. You could detect Hungarians by simply looking for donations in Hungarian Forints (HUF). Note that not all people who live in Hungary have Hungarian names,

Re: [Wikitech-l] Non-latin characters broken in donation comments

2008-12-03 Thread Thomas Dalton
Unfortunately we get the name already divided up from PayPal and are stuck either guessing or making an unattractive 'Surname, Given' display which looks bad for everyone. :( There is something to be said for annoying everyone equally. Being an international organisation is very important for

Re: [Wikitech-l] Non-latin characters broken in donation comments

2008-12-03 Thread Platonides
(long, complex solutions to guess the right display) Why not have a Show Name, Surname / Show Surname, Name option on the donation display? Easy, consistent, and everybody should be happy with it. ___ Wikitech-l mailing list

Re: [Wikitech-l] Non-latin characters broken in donation comments

2008-12-03 Thread Brion Vibber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Platonides wrote: (long, complex solutions to guess the right display) Why not have a Show Name, Surname / Show Surname, Name option on the donation display? Easy, consistent, and everybody should be happy with it. Because it would show

Re: [Wikitech-l] Non-latin characters broken in donation comments

2008-12-03 Thread Platonides
Brion Vibber wrote: Platonides wrote: (long, complex solutions to guess the right display) Why not have a Show Name, Surname / Show Surname, Name option on the donation display? Easy, consistent, and everybody should be happy with it. Because it would show everything wrong? :) --

Re: [Wikitech-l] Non-latin characters broken in donation comments

2008-12-02 Thread Brion Vibber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 mizusumashi wrote: Brion Vibber wrote: No as it contains private data, but we can check the encoding ourselves once we've gotten in there. I see. Thank you for the reply. Ok, I believe we've tracked it down -- the data came through fine from

Re: [Wikitech-l] Non-latin characters broken in donation comments

2008-12-01 Thread Brion Vibber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Jesse Plamondon-Willard wrote: Names with non-Latin characters in the donation comments are broken and outputting as question marks. Some people are understandably unhappy that their names are not appearing next

Re: [Wikitech-l] Non-latin characters broken in donation comments

2008-12-01 Thread Marco Schuster
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 7:02 PM, Brion Vibber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tei wrote: Is me or maybe form need charset=*UTF-8* added to it? Considering that the part that's broken isn't even *on* our form, I'm pretty sure it's not something on our form. :) The name gets put in at PayPal's

Re: [Wikitech-l] Non-latin characters broken in donation comments

2008-12-01 Thread Brion Vibber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marco Schuster wrote: On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 7:02 PM, Brion Vibber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tei wrote: Is me or maybe form need charset=*UTF-8* added to it? Considering that the part that's broken isn't even *on* our form, I'm pretty sure

Re: [Wikitech-l] Non-latin characters broken in donation comments

2008-12-01 Thread Brion Vibber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 mizusumashi wrote: Brion Vibber wrote: Assuming it's buggy, perhaps. First we need to confirm simply that PayPal is set to send us UTF-8 data... :) Can you send me the raw data fed from PayPal? If you can, I'll check Japanese character's

[Wikitech-l] Non-latin characters broken in donation comments

2008-11-30 Thread Jesse Plamondon-Willard
Hello, Names with non-Latin characters in the donation comments are broken and outputting as question marks. Some people are understandably unhappy that their names are not appearing next to their donations. For example, see

Re: [Wikitech-l] Non-latin characters broken in donation comments

2008-11-30 Thread Mark (Markie)
this has already been reported. see the previous email from brion regarding the cause. mark On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Jesse Plamondon-Willard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Names with non-Latin characters in the donation comments are broken and outputting as question marks. Some