[pmwiki-users] Anchors that starts with umlaut characters

Peter Brink peter.brink at brinkdata.se
Fri Jul 1 05:25:48 CDT 2005


Joachim Durchholz skrev:
 > Peter Brink wrote:
 >
 >> I have a bit of trouble with anchors whose name starts with an umlaut
 >> character.
 >
 >
 > Umlauts are illegal in anchor names. That's a restriction of HTML: the
 > anchor name becomes part of the URL, and URLs are restricted to 7-bit
 > ASCII.
 > You can URL-encode the umlauts, but that doesn't make much sense since
 > all places where the URL would be displayed (wiki text, browser address
 > bar) will usually display just the raw text.
 >
 > (BTW the same applies to directory and file names. I find that
 > unfortunate myself.)

Argg... well I have to learn to live with it... :-)

 >
 >  > I've searched the net for clues but found nothing illuminating.
 >
 > See http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/appendix/notes.html#non-ascii-chars .
 >

Thanks!

/Peter Brink





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