Extension talk:ReplaceSet/Archive

ReplaceSet and Defaultsort
At first, this extension seemed to me an ideal solution for automating "defaultsorting", correcting or adapting the default key by which MW sorts pages in categories. So I added the following syntax to a template:

In other words, if the value for the magic word "Defaultsort" isn't manually defined, then the default sortkey is determined using ReplaceSet to substitute characters with diacritics for characters without diacritics.

However, this is not what happened. All pages are instead sorted under the symbol "<", which obviously, isn't very helpful. Is this due to a bug, a syntax error or something else entirely? Cavila MW 1.17, MySQL 5.5.16, Php 5.3.8 10:53, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Aha! I did a few tweaks and found out that leaving a bit of space between some of the squirly bracket solved it - an undifferentiated sequence of them is not understood, apparently. Maybe it's a bug or a limitation to using parser functions, but nothing specifically to do with ReplaceSet, I suppose. Cavila MW 1.17, MySQL 5.5.16, Php 5.3.8 11:36, 21 May 2012 (UTC)

Upper limit of number of arguments?
I get an error saying something like ”the limit in number of calls to the function ReplaceSet is reached”. Would be nice if the limits where documented here! rotsee (talk) 13:02, 3 November 2012 (UTC)

Replacing Equals Sign
In the documentation, it says I should be able to replace an equals sign using the following code. However, when I tried it, the string is unchanged. Other substitutions are working as they should. Am I missing something obvious? (MW 1.19.2, PHP 5.3.16, MySQL 5.5.21) -- Mw.clearish (talk) 09:41, 10 January 2013 (UTC)


 * You update to the latest version?  support is part of the most recent version. Daniel Friesen (Dantman) (talk) 09:57, 10 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Thanks, that was the problem! I'd originally followed the link to Special:ExtensionDistributor/ReplaceSet and selected 1.19.x.  Now I've got the Git master instead. -- Mw.clearish (talk) 10:55, 10 January 2013 (UTC)