hiya, On Tuesday 22 July 2008 03:32:11 am Joey Hess wrote: > sean finney wrote: > > if you add a file with utf-8 characters in its name, the resulting <a > > href... links in the rendered pages have illegal characters in the name. > > What specific problems are you seeing with utf-8 characters in urls? I > rarely read RFCs for fun anymore, but I was under the perhaps mistaken > impression that they were fine unescaped outside of domain names now.
i'm playing around with a local ikiwiki install on my laptop, and get the following warning in my html validation: line 311 column 1 - Warning: <a> escaping malformed URI reference and the text explanation: “<…> escaping malformed URI reference” Cause: A URI contains impermissible characters or quotes around the URI are not closed. Example: Good <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/one space.html">space</a> Good <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/one%20space.html";>space</a> Good <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/one+space.html";>space</a> Good <a href="http://www.w3.org/>W3C</a> Good <a href="http://www.w3.org/";>W3C</a> Good <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] space">Email me!</a> Good <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Email me!</a> A space should not be contained in a URI (even if it works in all browsers…). This is detailed in RFC1738; look for the word “unsafe”. Solution: * If the URI contains impermissible characters, replace the characters with permissible ones or encode them using hexadecimal format. In the case of URIs, hexadecimal format uses a percentage character followed by a combination of two letters and digits (a-f and 0-9). The notation for the space character is %20. * If the URI is missing a quotation mark delimiter, add the character. References: * RFC2396 - Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax" * RFC1738 - Uniform Resource Locators * W3Schools: Hexadecimal Format Reference
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