2009/10/20 The Editor <[email protected]>: > We can revisit all this in the next round. I am more concerned about > getting to 3.3 first. It is possible when we evaluate everything, we > may find we don't these. But even so, in general I don't have any > burden to support page names with weird punctuation in the core. I > think it is more appropriate for a plugin.
Dan, what I was exploring and like to achieve is the full use of html entities in page names. Since BW already accepts UTF-8 characters in page names, it is only logical to create the easiest mechanisms which support input of html entities in page names. Just that. We can already create page names including the characters which are otherwise entered in a documents content as html entities: by inserting the % encoded characters directly. It is not as if they are not allowed. By adding the necessary html decoding before url encoding we have the simple means of entering html entities in page names. The special handling of '&' is needed for that, and escaping '&' for url encoding makes it impossible to enter html entities in page names. And I think the scope of the characters covered by html entities (and thus correctly represented by browsers) is far bigger than mere "weird punctuations". See http://htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/entities/ and the lists of characters available in HTML 4: 1. Latin-1 Entities<http://htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/entities/latin1.html> 2. Entities for Symbols and Greek Letters<http://htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/entities/symbols.html> 3. Special Entities<http://htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/entities/special.html> It seems strange to open up BW for easy use of thousands of Chinese characters in page names, and the whole scope of unicode characters from many languages, yet make it impossible to enter html entities. ~Hans --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BoltWire" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/boltwire?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
