Thread:Project:Support desk/Cannot starting a new discussion in support desk/reply (2)

Testing a reply here using same Chrome as well.

Edit: seems to be working as long as I don't use the editor found at: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Support_desk

Edit2: after attempting to append this post with my actual MediaWiki-specific problem, I think it is related to how I actually wrote post... (still investigating...)

Edit3: not sure why but everytime I

Cannot input UTF-8 characters (Japanese) when editing wiki pages

I have a fresh installation of MediaWiki 1.24.2 and I have difficulties inputting Japanese characters (and probably UTF-8 characters in general). When I am editing a wiki page using the editor, I start typing some Japanese characters and then click 'Save Page'. But then the characters become "???" after the edited page loads. Attempting to edit the page again shows the same "???" kind of characters.

I initially suspected it had something to do with how my database was configured since some of the character_set variables were set to 'latin1' but I have modified my database's /etc/my.cnf.d/server.cnf file to use utf8 (as shown below).

Default charset of httpd and php are set to utf8 as well.

Just now, I setup the VisualEditor (and parsoid service) and it seems I can input Japanese characters just fine within the VisualEditor and after saving, the wiki page looks fine. When I edit using the WikiEditor, the wiki page has the same garbled text after saving.

What could be the problem with my MediaWiki's configuration? Any input is greatly appreciated.

You may check the wiki yourself using the following (I plan to start fresh again once the problem is solved):
 * User: testuser
 * Pass: testtest
 * Wiki: URL REMOVED, seems to be causing problems while posting

Environment Specifications

 * MediaWiki 1.24.2
 * PHP 5.4.16 (apache2handler)
 * MariaDB 5.5.42-MariaDB-wsrep
 * CentOS Linux release 7.1.1503 (Core)