On Jun 25, 2008, at 1:39 PM, Paul Libbrecht wrote:

> careful: suppressing them may get down to an unreadable format.
>
> I'm interested to know what you suggest wrt accented characters. It  
> has caused many problems in i2geo.net and the reason seems to be an  
> incomplete treatment of URL encodings (still can't know where). I  
> still find it'd be great to allow the accented characters to be part  
> of URLs.
>
> I am surprised that "." (dot) is proposed to be suppressed and don't  
> know the place in the syntax where it would be a problem.

Document names... Format is wiki:Space.Page

-Vincent

>> Vincent Massol wrote:
>>> I'd like to discuss about filtering document names when they are
>>> created, i.e directly in the XWikiDocument.setFullName()/setName()/
>>> setSpace()/setDatabase() methods.
>>>
>>> We could filter out (i.e. remove) the following characters:
>>> * pipe: |
>>> * greater than: >
>>> * brackets: [ and ]
>>> * apostrophe: '
>>> * quote: "
>>> * colon: :
>>> * dot: .
>>> * forward slash: /
>>>
>>> Any other?
>>>
>>> The reason for ., :, |, >, [ and ] is because these are reserved
>>> characters in wiki link format.
>>>
>>> Another option is to allow some escaping for these chars when  
>>> writing
>>> a wiki link.
>>>
>>> Last we need to think about documents in the DB and which already  
>>> have
>>> these chars. Should we write a migrator to filter these chars too?
>>> Probably.
>>>
>>> WDYT?
>>
>> +1 for remove these chars.
>> This makes much problems and I think it doesn't worth effort for
>> escaping chars in hundreds places. At least for now.
>>  Artem Melentyev
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