On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Petko Yotov <[email protected]> wrote: > On Friday 04 November 2011 10:58:27 Carles Escrig Royo wrote: >> Hello. It's a nice helping feature for novel authors. >> Shouldn't this be part of the core? Imho, this authors will never be >> able to find out how and which codes they should use for those >> characters. > > Actually, these characters appear very rarely in addresses, and at least with > Firefox and Chrome, when you copy such address of a page/link/picture, the > correct, encoded address is copied to the clipboard and you can paste it > without problems in PmWiki. > > Among the rare cases, there is one which happens more often: pages of > Wikipedia can have parentheses in their addresses and authors with MSIE or > Opera need to encode them. > > So, about including the recipe into the core, if many people use it, it is > possible. > > Petko > >> On 11/1/11, Petko Yotov <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hello. FixURL provides a [%2] button in the edit toolbar to encode >> > special characters like parentheses and quotes in link addresses, and >> > avoid incorrect interpretation by PmWiki: >> > http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/FixURL > ... >> > press the button, and the address changes to: >> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki%20%28disambiguation%29 >> > >> > The second address works both in PmWiki and in all browsers and points to >> > the same external page.
This is a pretty nifty thing. I've been doing it the "hard way" up to know by running them through a filter in emacs and pasting it back into the text box. This should save a couple of steps. _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
