[Bf-docboard] Small bug for non-english editors in wiki

Bastien Montagne montagne29 at wanadoo.fr
Tue Mar 29 15:31:49 CEST 2011


Well, just to say jesterKing fixed this today :)

So now, non-english users have the special chars back for editing.

Bastien

> I all
>
> I talk with smerch today on IRC, and he pointed me out a problem:
>
> When you edit a page and have another local than the default, english
> one, you do not have the special chars box anymore.
>
> I didn’t bother much ;) , but for some non-european keyboard users, it’s
> a real problem, as they have to switch there keyboard layout to get
> chars like {} or []!
>
> This seams to be a Mediawiki problem, so I asked on #mediawiki, and
> bawolff pointed me a quite sensible source of problem/solution, I think
> – but I have no rights to edit the relevant pages!
>
> So we need you, mindrones or jesterKing :D
>
> Anyway, here’s the problem:
> The MediaWiki:Copyrightwarning page (which is placed under the edit box)
> contains that special chars stuff. Unfortunately, it is now translated,
> and the translated versions do not get those special chars…
>
> Now, the proposed solution (once again, couldn’t test,  but seems
> sensible to me):
> Copy the special-chars table from MediaWiki:Copyrightwarning to
> MediaWiki:Edittools (and comment it out in MediaWiki:Copyrightwarning,
> to avoid english users to have it twice ;) ). This should show it again
> to everyone :)
>
> I hope it’ll fix that!
>
> Cheers,
> Bastien



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