MediWiki Integration

[FrankP]

Hi together,

I need to push up this thread again.

We've set up MW 1.6.7 with vB 3.5.4, tried Kai's code from #10 as well as the code found on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/VBull...rs_Integration. Both are working fine, as long as you don't need this in Germany ;-).

Our problem is the existance of german special characters (Umlaute, ????). Because for us these characters are standard, a lot of usernames are containing them.

And unfortunatly, I don't have any idea where to look, hack or modifiy the code to allow usernames like "B?rchen". I tried multiple things now for two days, but now giving up.

It's OK not to support chars like "~, +, *" and so on, but the Umlaute are really required....

If there is anybody out there who has an information where to find the required information, this would be very, very cool.

Thanks in advance for any response, I know this is more a MW related question than vB, but, who knows, maybe another german board has allready found the solution.

bye for now,
Frank