Hi, On Tue, 2023-01-17 at 12:03 +0100, Martin Domdey wrote: > isn't it better to avoid invisible characters in page titles > while creating the pages? > > Please look here, there has been problems with invisible characters > working with it when parsing or page linking those page titles with > invisible unicode > characters: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer_Diskussion:Wurgl#L > iste_der_Biografien/Ci
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technical%29#UTF-8_ZERO_WIDTH_SPACE_in_page_title > Instead of this there will never be a problem when invisible > characters within the page title name will be deleted when > creating the page. > > What do you think about it and what technical approaches do > already exist? How are LTR and RTL marks dealt if creating pages with > them? See https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/maniphest/query/GDxAs4QdEDTG/#R for related bugs, and a ticket about improving cleanupTitles.php. Cheers, andre -- Andre Klapper (he/him) | Bugwrangler / Developer Advocate https://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/ _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list -- wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe send an email to wikitech-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/wikitech-l.lists.wikimedia.org/
