[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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