> Not to sound flip about it, but there's only so much you can do to guard
> against retardery.  If someone *insists* on including, bad enough
> spaces, but *punctuation* into filenames and complete urls, then *he's*
> the one with the problem.  Garbage in, garbage out.  If the link gets
> screwed up so that it's broken (ie, can't click-through it), then too
> bad.
>

Well, it is standards-compliant. The same was once said about spaces
in filenames, but look how common that is today. You and I may hate
it, but so long as the RFC / filesystem supports punctuation in URLs /
filenames then we can't complain when users use that feature.



> I always try to separate urls with at least a space, eg, at the end of a
> sentence, so there's no confusion whether/not that trailing dot belongs.
>

Be conservative with what you send, and liberal with waht you receive, no?



> Me personally, I wouldn't worry about trying to contort a 'vim' script
> to deal with crap like that.
>

It depends on what the job was, I suppose.


> But *publishers* (like wiki) who merge urls with other surrounding
> text/punctuation?  That's unforgiveable.  Someone should edit the
> page/entry itself to fix it.
>

It's perfectly legal in the standards. You might want to try to change
wikipedia policy, however.


-- 
Dotan Cohen

http://what-is-what.com
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