I wish I could help you more ... considering that you even took care to
manually convert the Romanian language file into UTF-8 Unicode .. :-)
... but I'm new to all this stuff
I did run into an issue with Romanian special characters, but that was fixed
by creating the MySQL dump by the using charset=latin option. I don't think
that's the same problem.
... you do have a Romanian name though
-----Original Message-----
From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)Wikimedia.org
[mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of wiki(a)avenarius.sk
Sent: Saturday, August 12, 2006 1:12 AM
To: mediawiki-l(a)Wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Integrating phpBB as a MediaWiki extension page?
On Saturday, 12th August 2006 at 00:40:59 (GMT -0700), Webmaster Comunitatea
Româna wrote:
> Lucky you! We've never managed to make that
authentication work for
> any users who had diacritic letters in their user name. 8-(
Yes, I've read about the issue. I made a small
modification to the
phpBB code so that it applies tighter restrictions when validating the new
users.
I realize that's a possible solution, but it's pretty drastic. Most people
in this country have names that include diacritic letters.
Forbidding folks to sign in with their real names would be too harsh, as
some contributors to our (school) wiki, particularly teachers, wish to have
their contributions listed under their real names.
What's mystifying is that signing in to MediaWiki with diacritic letters is
OK, and signing in to phpBB with diacritic letters is OK, too. But when
MediaWiki, via the extension above, is commanded to fetch user names from
phpBB's usernames table, it fails on every single name containing a
non-ascii letter. What could cause this?
Could it be because we manually converted our entire phpBB board (and its
SQL dump) into UTF-8 Unicode? (Yes, we even took care to manually convert
the Romanian language file into UTF-8 Unicode, although we don't speak
Romanian. ;-)
It now seems the phpBB database stores the UTF-8 encoded user names
containing diacritic letters in a way that the MediaWiki extension is unable
to process, although phpBB itself works flawlessly after the global
conversion to UTF-8. Solution unknown.
--
Yours,
Alex.
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