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Fix OSMF Wiki Encoding
There is likely an encoding issue with the OSMF wiki https://osmfoundation.org/wiki
It has been reported that: "a=" becomes ɑ "b=" becomes β "c=" becomes ç
Likely related to #373
To be clear I have made no changes to any of the production wikis including that one as part of the tests relating to #373.
Like all the wikis apart from the main one that one is using binary as the character set at the database level so the database does no kind of encoding or decoding at all and that is all down to PHP and the mediawiki code.
What character encoding would use = to turn Latin letters to Greek ones? Can the person who reported the issue share a screen recording, for those of us who don’t have edit permissions there? I could imagine that some input method editor would do this kind of conversion, but it would be quite a firestorm if MediaWiki were to do it somehow, since it would impact the wikitext template syntax, among other things.
Did we ever hear more about this issue? Can someone with permission try to reproduce the issue using the provided sequences? If it doesn’t reproduce, I think we can close the issue for now.
Do we have some context for the original "it has been reported" that would tell us what exactly was reported so we could test it?
Nothing on my end. I only found out from this issue. I’d just give a go at entering something like “a=“ into a wiki page and seeing what it becomes. If it works, let’s close until we hear more.