[Pmwiki-users] Links containing brackets

[Nils Knappmeier]

>Parentheses are allowed in URLs, but PmWiki excludes them by default
>because they aren't common and it's more likely that a parenthetical
>item isn't meant to be part of a URL.
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Would it be difficult, to implement it that way, that links in the style of
[[URL linktext]] would be allowed to have brackets in the URL? afaik 
might be difficult, because it's the same
point in the code that converts those things.

Nils

>However, you can change the URLPathPattern to be more legal.
>Note that the RFC specs (2396 and one other) indicates that the following 
>characters are not legal in URLs:
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>PmWiki also doesn't include trailing puncutation ('?', '.', '!') as
>part of a URL because it's often meant to be the end of a sentence
>and not a URL component.
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