Thanks Kevin, that explains a lot. Then it's probably a good idea not
to decode the question mark...

On Nov 1, 9:28 pm, Kevin <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think you are running into a specification of URL format that won't be
> able to get around...
>
> ? is a reserved character in a URL.  If it exists in the page name it must
> be converted to %3f; or it will be thought of an argument separator.
>
> The difference is what can be viewed in a web page and what can be used on a
> URL.
>
> Reserved characters in a URL are:
>
>  Dollar ("$")
>  Ampersand ("&")
>  Plus ("+")
>  Comma (",")
>  Forward slash/Virgule ("/")
>  Colon (":")
>  Semi-colon (";")
>  Equals ("=")
>  Question mark ("?")
>  'At' symbol ("@")
>
> A good reference page on this is:
>
> http://www.eskimo.com/~bloo/indexdot/html/topics/urlencoding.htm
>
>
>
> On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Markus <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > When I create a page named "What?", the browser address bar reads "what
> > %3f".
>
> > When I create a page named "Ülöfä", the browser address bar reads
> > "ülöfä".
>
> > I expected "What?" to display as "what?".
>
> > Regards, Markus
>
> > On Nov 1, 9:08 pm, The Editor <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > When I type this in the address bar or in a link in a page, the ?
> > > shows up fine... Are you talking about the actual page name? It should
> > > be escaped there but so should your ü. So I'm not sure what you are
> > > talking about here...
>
> > > Cheers,
> > > Dan
>
> > > On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Markus <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
>
> > > > Hi,
>
> > > > Umlauts are converted in the address bar. A page named "entwürfe"
> > > > shows up as ".../entwürfe". Great.
>
> > > > But a page named "entwürfe?" shows up as ".../entwürfe%3f".
>
> > > > Bug? Limitation? Intention?
>
> > > > Regards, Markus
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