Last modified: 2013-11-15 11:08:07 UTC
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Lua#mw.ustring.byteoffset_bug: > Does mw.ustring.byteoffset work correctly with negative offsets? Putting the > following into the debug window gives the values shown: > > for i = -1, -5, -1 do print(i, mw.ustring.byteoffset('abcde', 0, i)) end > -1 3 > -2 2 > -3 1 > -4 nil > -5 nil > > I don't need the function—I'm just asking if it has a bug. Johnuniq (talk) > 02:22, 25 June 2013 (UTC) Further investigation reveals that the LuaStandalone implementation works correctly, it's only LuaSandbox that has the problem. Patch to be submitted momentarily.
Related URL: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/70421 (Gerrit Change Iceee1022a55abd7a08df1ea7843e1277eb02798b)
Change merged. It will most likely be deployed to WMF wikis along with 1.22wmf9, see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.22/Roadmap for the schedule.
Change 95409 had a related patch set uploaded by MarkAHershberger: Fix LuaSandbox mw.ustring.byteoffset with negative 'i' https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/95409
Change 95409 abandoned by MarkAHershberger: Fix LuaSandbox mw.ustring.byteoffset with negative 'i' https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/95409
No open patches to review here (backport patches got abandoned), hence resetting status to RESOLVED FIXED. Backport_to_Stable flag might be set to "-" by hexmode.
