Module pywikipedia.windows_chars

Script to replace bad Windows-1252 (cp1252) characters with
HTML entities on ISO 8859-1 wikis. Don't run this script on a UTF-8 wiki.

Syntax: python windows_chars.py [pageTitle] [file[:filename]] [sql[:filename]]

Command line options:

   -file:XYZ  reads a list of pages, which can for exampagee be gotten through
              Looxix's robot. XYZ is the name of the file from which the
              list is taken. If XYZ is not given, the user is asked for a
              filename.
              Page titles should be in [[double-square brackets]].

   -sql:XYZ   reads a local SQL cur dump, available at
              http://download.wikimedia.org/. Searches for pages with
              Windows-1252 characters, and tries to repair them on the live
              wiki. Example:
              python windows_chars.py -sql:20040711_cur_table.sql.sql -lang:es

Imported modules:

pywikipedia.config, pywikipedia.pagegenerators, re, pywikipedia.replace, sys, pywikipedia.wikipedia

Imported variables:

__version__, msg, replacements