[pmwiki-users] Re: Lithuanian - $AuthorGroup

[Andrius Kulikauskas]

I'm sorry, I meant: http://www.ms.lt/lt/  Andrius

Andrius Kulikauskas wrote:
> Thank you for PmWiki! My online lab Minciu Sodas http://www.ms.lt has 
> been using it at http://www.globalvillages.info and 
> http://www.openleader.com and http://www.ethicalpublicdomain.org for 
> about a year now, upon the recommendation of Rick Nelson of 
> http://www.solaroof.org
> 
> I'm upgrading to PmWiki2.  Also, today I set up PmWiki2 for our 
> Lithuanian language site: http://www.ms.lt/lt2/
> 
> I'm happy that, in comparision with the earlier version, we're now able 
> to edit Lithuanian letters and they are maintained as such as one 
> switches back and forth between edit and view modes. We have 32 letters, 
> the typical Roman letters plus a few extra, so we use iso-8859-13.
> 
> A few issues have come up that I hope you might help with. A couple of 
> them I skirted around:
> * the sidebar would disappear when I went to a group, I think because 
> the $Group variable was being called unsuccessfully.  I erased this but 
> it continued to be a problem because our main section has special 
> characters in its name.  So I gave the sidebar a group name with no 
> special characters.
> * upon going directly to index.php the variables $Group and $Name are 
> not resolved, they just show up like that.  So I got around this by 
> checking if there's no pathinfo for index.php and in that case 
> redirecting to the URL for what I want to be the default page.
> 
> The problem that I don't know how to get around is how to set the 
> $AuthorGroup variable (default=Profiles) which I want the ~ prefix to 
> send to a section whose name has special characters.  What's happening 
> is that the "%" signs in the Unicode are getting dropped.  So when I set 
> $AuthorGroup to '%c5%a0viesuoliai' the link to the section becomes 
> '\c5a0sviesuoliai\' but it should be '\%c5%a0viesuoliai\'.  I tried to 
> add an extra '%' in my $AuthorGroup variable but that didn't work.  Any 
> ideas?
> 
> Regarding our English wikis, we're interested in assigning 'metadata' to 
> pages.  I look forward to taking a look at 
> http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/Properties
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> Andrius
> 
> Andrius Kulikauskas
> Minciu Sodas
> http://www.ms.lt
> ms at ms.lt
> +370 (5) 264 5950
> Vilnius, Lithuania
> 
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