Hi,

On Jul 11, 2012, at 8:25 PM, Moritz Hesse (EA GmbH) wrote:

> Well this leads to a question on my side: isn't there still a problem with 
> certain characters in page names that cause the watchlist feature to get 
> buggy? I remember that (iirc) apostrophs in page names causes problems when 
> trying to show all watched pages on the profile - the list simply stays 
> empty. Is this bug solved yet?

I don't know for sure (I don't remember this issue) but if you find an issue 
with some character please raise an issue on http://jira.xwiki.org since it's 
supposed to work fine.

Thanks
-Vincent

> Am 11.07.2012 um 20:21 schrieb Vincent Massol <[email protected]>:
> 
>> Hi Joris,
>> 
>> On Jul 11, 2012, at 12:16 PM, Joris Dirks wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> The function $util.clearName "Cleans up the passed text by removing
>>> all accents and special characters to make it a valid page name." It
>>> removes spaces from names, as demonstrated in the FAQ tutorial [1].
>>> Removing spaces is a bit too much for my taste; I've resorted to using
>>> $util.clearAccents to filter page names (also replacing periods with
>>> commas!). I hope the users of my wiki won't find illicit uses/breaking
>>> page names. Are there better alternatives?
>>> 
>>> I agree using spaces can make it difficult to access URLs, but the
>>> page names become far clearer.
>> 
>> We had this because in the past we were not supporting special characters in 
>> page names. This is no longer the case and we're moving away from any 
>> restriction for page names.
>> 
>> If you're on a recent version (say 3.5 or later for example) you should have 
>> no problem with special chars in page names.
>> 
>> Try it and let us know how it goes!
>> 
>> Thanks
>> -Vincent
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