There could be a wiki.def file in that defines what char set delimits or defines each wiki operation.

If someone wants to use [ ] for links, fine.  If someone wants to change and use {}, or () or <>, or whatever for links.  that could be a user choice, just make the appropriate changes in the definition file.  There's no need to force everyone to adopt a new standard and rewrite all their old wikis.  Make it adaptable.

 If the general trend is to adopt some other standard, then that could be come the default wiki.def set. 

One could also develop conversion programs to convert one set to another, using old and new definitions. 

I suppose it might even be possible to attach these sorts of definitions in a 'hidden' section at the end of each wiki page.  

Kathryn Andersen wrote:
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 12:40:37PM -0500, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
  
The primary reason for making this switch is that unlike
curly braces and brackets, bare parentheses are legal in
urls.  As a result, people who want to write a url
containing parentheses (common on Wikipedia) have to write 
%28 and %29 for parens so that PmWiki doesn't treat them
as link text suppression markers.

In this proposal we would not immediately eliminate the
use of parens to suppress link text -- it would be left
as an option for now and removed in some future major
release of PmWiki.

Any comments on this proposal?
    

Sounds like a good idea to me.

Kathryn Andersen
  

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