Hi,
While working on the git-mediawiki project[1], we ran into some
problems regarding utf8 encoding of files. Most of them have been
solved, however, one is still pretty annoying.
Let me illustrate it :
I want to edit a page on mediawiki using the API, with a very simple example :
my $mw = MediaWiki::API->new();
$mw->edit( {
action => 'edit',
title => 'Main_page',
text => 'été',
} ) ;
But, when I look at the page on mediawiki, I see weird characters : été.
I tried text => encode_utf8('été') with no success.
This makes pushing changes from git to mediawiki buggy since pulling a
file with accentuated characters and pushing it right after changes
things on the wiki.
While googling (a lot), I found that utf8 was pretty tricky in perl...
The only thing that seems to solve things is a simple addition of 'use
encoding utf8' at the top of our script.
However
A) Adding this line requires that I remove 'use strict;'
B) I found some information about this pragma encoding and it seems to
be unadvised to use it
Do you have any information regarding this issue ?
Thanks,
--
Jérémie Nikaes
[1] https://github.com/Bibzball/Git-Mediawiki
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