Thanks Giuseppe !
I've subscribed to T219279 to know when the pages are properly converted,
and when I can remove the hack in my code.
Nico
On Mon, Aug 5, 2019 at 7:03 AM Giuseppe Lavagetto <glavage...@wikimedia.org>
wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 4, 2019 at 11:34 AM Nicolas Vervelle <nverve...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Thanks Brian,
> >
> > Great for the link to Php72ToUpper.php !
> > I think I understand with it : for example, the first line says 'ƀ' =>
> 'ƀ',
> > which should mean that this letter shouldn't be converted to uppercase by
> > MW ?
> > That's one of the letter I found that wasn't converted to uppercase and
> > that was generating a false positive in my code : so it's because
> specific
> > MW code is preventing the conversion :-)
> >
>
> Hi!
>
> No, that file is a temporary measure during a transition between two
> versions of php.
>
> In HHVM and PHP 5.x, calling mb_toupper("ƀ") would give the erroneous
> result "ƀ".
>
> In PHP 7.x, the result is the correct capitalization.
>
> The issue is that the titles of wiki articles get normalized, so under php7
> we would have
>
> ƀar => Ƀar
>
> which would prevent you from being able to reach the page.
>
> Once we're done with the transition and we go through the process of
> coverting the (several hundred) pages/users that have the wrong title
> normalization, we will remove that table, and obtain the correct behaviour.
>
> You just need to subscribe https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219279 and
> wait for its resolution I think - most unicode horrors are fixed in recent
> versions of PHP, including the one you were citing.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Giuseppe
> --
> Giuseppe Lavagetto
> Principal Site Reliability Engineer, Wikimedia Foundation
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