[pmwiki-users] Allowable characters

Patrick R. Michaud pmichaud at pobox.com
Tue May 15 21:13:04 CDT 2007


On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 10:02:38PM +0200, christian.ridderstrom at gmail.com wrote:
> On Mon, 14 May 2007, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> 
> >>Not a dumb question at all.  Not all Wikis are the same in this 
> >>respect; MediaWiki *does* allow '(' ')' in page names -- it's just that 
> >>PmWiki doesn't.
> >
> >In retrospect I somewhat wish that I had chosen '{' and '}' to mean 
> >"suppress text in the link" instead of parens.
> 
> Is it to late to change if it's done slowly, i.e. to begin with allow '{' 
> and '}' to also suppress text?

John Rankin and I had discussed the possibility that '{' and '}' could
be used to add text.  :-)

Pm



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