Last modified: 2014-09-21 20:48:16 UTC
Hello, on a personnal installation, the author name "Niklas Laxström" causes Special:Version to crash. I could fix it by changing "Niklas Laxström" to "Niklas Laxström" in UniversalLanguageSelector.php, when I saw that Extension:Renameuser had an author with the same special character.
I can verify that ö is correctly encoded as UTF-8 in the version of UniversalLanguageSelector.php in our git repo. ---- It sounds like your website is being served with incorrect http headers. Could you check what the content-type header is. It should be Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
To clarify, I originally skimmed this and missed the word "crash". Crash is a bit ambiguous (Do you mean php segfaults? something else), but in any case, it is unlikely to be core MediaWiki's fault but some other component of your website causing the issue.
By "crash", I mean that all the HTML after the UniversalLanguageSelector "authors" cell (including footer and all the page end) is considered as text and "moved" above the insta
Oups... i continue ... above the "installed extensions" section, the sidebar, action and personnal tabs are also misplaced. There is no "fatal error", only a rendering bug. When, setting $wgShowDebug = true; I see no content at "HEADER:" line in the debug infos. But in my LocalSettings.php I have : $wgDBTableOptions = "ENGINE=InnoDB, DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8"; $wgShellLocale = "en_US.utf8"; As I am on a shared server, I'm not sure i can get its configuration, and I probably cannot change it. I removed my fix, so you can see the result at http://liverc.org/index.php?title=Special:Version
Bugzilla isn't really meant as a support forum... There seems to be quite a few things screwed up with your wiki (Although looking at the page, it appears less likely that it is an apache issue). Did you modify the mediawiki software? Can you reproduce this issue with a clean unmodified install of MediaWiki and only official extensions (By official I mean extensions that are in our git repo)?
So far the problems do not look like problems in the codebase to me (plus I cannot see any issues with character enconding anymore), so this should rather be discussed in https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Support_desk instead. If there's really some software bug you run into after more debugging, it should become a bug report of course. :)
