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libwww-mediawiki-client-perl package

Problem with retaining correct UTF8 encoding on commit

Bug #586292 reported by Märt Põder on 2010-05-27

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	libwww-mediawiki-client-perl (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Low	Benjamin Mako Hill

Bug Description

Binary package hint: libwww-mediawiki-client-perl

Tried to commit just normal file, but UTF8 wasn't recognised by MediaWiki and all the non ASCII characters were messed up. Needed to patch line 1708 to make it work.

I put

&TEXTAREA_NAME => $text,

instead of

&TEXTAREA_NAME => $octets,

Didn't bother to find out the source of the problem though.

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Märt Põder (boamaod) wrote on 2010-05-27:

Fixes the the UTF8 problem with black box method Edit (545 bytes, text/plain)

Brian Murray (brian-murray) on 2010-05-27

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added: patch

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2010-05-28:

is the encoding issue similar to http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=429612?

Changed in libwww-mediawiki-client-perl (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Low

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Märt Põder (boamaod) wrote on 2010-05-28:

I'm not sure, but it doesn't seem to be connected. I committed UTF8 file that was downloaded by mvs itself and changed it a bit, before uploading. There were no UTF8 specific page titles involved, as far as I know. Since the patch I did bypasses encoding to UTF8 before upload, I'd say that that files were maybe UTF8-encoded twice and this made all non-ASCII characters in the text invalid. Also, uploading several times made the non-ASCII trash lengthier each time.

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Benjamin Mako Hill (mako) wrote on 2012-04-10:

I believe that this bug was fixed in 0.31-2 which was uploaded to Debian in 2011-02-13 and which contained what I am rather sure is a better fix than the attached one to the bug in question. Please try to the new package and reopen this bug if you feel that this issue is not fixed in this package.