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01272: Locale letters not recognized by page text variables.

Description: When there is a non-ascii character in a PTV, then the word is not recognized as a PTV. For example:

(:Adreça: Carrer Casa Blanca, Alcoi (PV):)
(:Nom: Mariola:)

This is the non-recognized PTV: {$:Adreça}

This is a usual PTV: {$:Nom}

I tried to add the u modifier to the $PageTextVarPatterns but it is not working either. I confirm locale is set correctly through setlocale(LC_ALL, 'ca_ES').

This is working fine in the php cli, though:

$str = 'Adreça';
setlocale(LC_ALL, 'ca_ES');
echo preg_match('#^\w+$#u', $str);

I am not sure this is a bug: it is designed this way. A PageTextVariable has a "name" and a "value"; the "name" can only contain plain Latin letters, numbers, the _underscore character and a dash. A "value" can contain any international characters. --Petko November 22, 2011, at 06:45 AM

In my opinion this is quite counter intuitive. According to docs, PTVs are easy to define, a simple definition list or a simple colon delimiter in normal text will do the trick. So it seems that pmwiki encourage novel authors to use them. But one of the most obvious use cases I see is to use them as a card. For instance something as simple as:

Institution: Universitat Jaume I
Address: Av. de Vicent Sos Baynat, s/n 12071 Castelló de la Plana, Espanya
Telephone: +34 964 72 80 00

Is not going to work out for my Catalan localized wiki. I will have to do something like:

Institució: Universitat Jaume I
(:Institucio: Universitat Jaume I:)
Adreça: Av. de Vicent Sos Baynat, s/n 12071 Castelló de la Plana, Espanya
(:Adreca: Av. de Vicent Sos Baynat, s/n 12071 Castelló de la Plana, Espanya:)
Telèfon: +34 964 72 80 00
(:Telefon: +34 964 72 80 00:)

That could lead to confusion in the PTV naming, and possibly to abandon its use. I believe it is a very uncomfortable behavior for localized wikis.

Is it possible to make PTVs sensible to non-ascii letters? Could it be done as a local customization? There is any technical impediment to incorporate this? What would it mean to incorporate it to the core? Does it involve lots of changes? Thanks!

It may be possible, although it will require several changes in different places and files (pmwiki.php, stdmarkup.php, pagelist.php at first sight). I'll think about it. --Petko November 23, 2011, at 04:13 PM

I have started a recipe at Cookbook:InternationalPTVs. It mostly works except with PageList Templates which is a pity, but to fix it we should override the core scripts/pagelist.php file. --Petko October 12, 2012, at 08:00 AM