From 6eb84144df605feb717efc91c84c00eaec62a5f6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: MatmaRex <matma.rex@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 21:16:57 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] (bug 46615) updateCollation.php: sanity check the collation
 before proceeding

Change-Id: I5be1b1ec1823fdb7438c3f501fb6194142c1e9dc
---
 maintenance/updateCollation.php | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/maintenance/updateCollation.php b/maintenance/updateCollation.php
index a76a1ee69a..8118f682f1 100644
--- a/maintenance/updateCollation.php
+++ b/maintenance/updateCollation.php
@@ -82,6 +82,10 @@ TEXT;
 			$collation = Collation::singleton();
 		}
 
+		// Collation sanity check: in some cases the constructor will work,
+		// but this will raise an exception, breaking all category pages
+		$collation->getFirstLetterData();
+
 		$options = array(
 			'LIMIT' => self::BATCH_SIZE,
 			'ORDER BY' => 'cl_to, cl_type, cl_from',
-- 
2.20.1