The challenges are first that it's based on a Tomcat backend < https://github.com/Wikimedia-TW/han3_ji7_tsoo1_kian3_WM/blob/master/src/ids… which I'm not sure is precedented in our current ecosystem, and second that the code uses Chinese variable and function names, which should unfortunately be Anglicized by convention, AIUI. Finally, there might be security issues around the rendered text itself, if it were misused to mask content. I'm mostly asking this list for help with the question of using Tomcat in production.

Friends, I'm helping review a tool <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Ids> that I understand Wikimedia Taiwan is eager to use, which uses a parser hook to render ideographic description characters <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideographic_Description_Characters_(Unicode_block)> into PNG glyphs in order to display historic or rare characters which aren't covered by Unicode. It's very cool. The challenges are first that it's based on a Tomcat backend <https://github.com/Wikimedia-TW/han3_ji7_tsoo1_kian3_WM/blob/master/src/idsrend/services/IDSrendServlet.java>, which I'm not sure is precedented in our current ecosystem, and second that the code uses Chinese variable and function names, which should unfortunately be Anglicized by convention, AIUI. Finally, there might be security issues around the rendered text itself, if it were misused to mask content. I'm mostly asking this list for help with the question of using Tomcat in production. Thanks, Adam _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l