Wikipedia:Lua/Modul/Coordinates/en

Coordinates – Module with functions for coordinates (geo, sky).

German Wikipedia does not maintain this module until further notice.

Functions for templates

kmlTitle

Replace characters that cause problems in kmlexport by similar simplified surrogates.

Then remove any remaining character which makes trouble.

Parameters:

1

Label text

Evaluate: adjusted label text – if that would be empty, the original text will be returned

Hack for kmlexport 2017/18

This tool has problems on decoding the URL when characters appear which need three octets in UTF-8. That happens from codepoint U+0800 (2048₁₀) upwards.

The function kmlTitle remedies that temporarily.

Other Wiki projects might copy the following module directly:

• Module:Coordinates/kml (d:Q50976437)

or include the three functions into a local Module:Coordinates (d:Q7348344).

In templates it can be used then by

• {{#invoke:Coordinates|kmlTitle|Some title for geohack}}

or respectively (as is)

• {{#invoke:Coordinates/kml|kmlTitle|Some title for geohack}}

For substitution of problematic characters by surrogates the following two modules might be provided locally:

• Module:Sort (d:Q24205172)
• Module:Sort/utf8max2bytes (d:Q50978956)

If they are missing the hack will work as well, but cannot replace by similar characters.

Test case: „ỹ—jaｊａja“ „ỹ—jaｊａja“ → "y-jajaja""y-jajaja"

Functions for Lua modules (API)

The function described above can be used by other modules per require() for a label text show:

local lucky, kmlHack = pcall( require, "Module:Coordinates/kml" )
if type( kmlHack ) == "table" then
    show = kmlHack._kmlTitle( show )
end