[pmwiki-users] Making a domain name a wiki page

Patrick R. Michaud pmichaud at pobox.com
Thu Jun 1 13:10:25 CDT 2006


On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 05:26:32PM +0200, Thomas -Balu- Walter wrote:
> On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 09:58:03AM -0500, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> > At the moment I'm thinking that we'll establish an equivalence
> > between underscores and spaces, so that
> > 
> >     [[Group.Name with spaces]]
> > 
> > will generate a url like
> > 
> >     http://www.example.com/wiki/Group/Name_with_spaces
> > 
> > instead of the ugly and hard-to-type
> > 
> >     http://www.example.com/wiki/Group/Name%20with%20spaces
> 
> When do you need to type it that way? Afaik the browsers convert spaces
> if you enter them in the address bar?

What if I'm sending the url to someone in an email message, or 
on a printed sheet of paper?  Spaces-as-spaces doesn't work well in
these contexts, as they're typically treated as uri delimiters.
An explicit underscore seems more appropriate.

Pm




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