[pmwiki-users] PTV Confusion.

[sti at pooq.com]

Knut Alboldt wrote:
> Guillermo Calderon - INCO schrieb:
>> Stirling Westrup wrote:
>>> What are the legal characters in the name of a PTV? Looking at the regexes
>>> inside pmwiki.php (latest version), I see:
>>>
>>> $PageTextVarPatterns = array(
>>>   'var:'        => '/^(:*\\s*(\\w[-\\w]*)\\s*:[ \\t]?)(.*)($)/m',
>>>   '(:var:...:)' => '/(\\(: *(\\w[-\\w]*) *:(?!\\))\\s?)(.*?)(:\\))/s'
>>>   );
>>>
>>> Am I reading that wrong, or doesn't [-\\w] match any word character plus '-'?
>>> The reason I ask is that I can get simple PTV's to work, but not those that
>>> contain '-' in the names. I wish to have a bunch of entries like:
> 
> I also miss the "Umlaute" öäü etc (ae oe etc). In german pmwiki-pages, 
> variable-names containing these letters are quite usefull.
> 
I thought that the whole point of the \\w was that it matched characters found
in words for the current locale setting. What is your locale set to on your wiki?