From b10c46a1f3b9fadfb3cf6f1129e748bfc742ea44 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joey Hess Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:25:40 -0500 Subject: followup to other question --- doc/bugs/shortcut_encoding.mdwn | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ doc/plugins/shortcut/discussion.mdwn | 12 +----------- 2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) create mode 100644 doc/bugs/shortcut_encoding.mdwn diff --git a/doc/bugs/shortcut_encoding.mdwn b/doc/bugs/shortcut_encoding.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..b4a159004 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/bugs/shortcut_encoding.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +* The URL is rewritten to + , + which the remove server doesn't like. Mind the esacping of [^A-Za-z0-9]. + Might this be a problem of the web server? + +Also, I'd like to put the shortcut usages into backticks +-- `[[iki shortcuts]]` -- +to have them displayed in the usual backtick-formatting. +That also doesn't work, but this is an already-reported issue, as far as I know. + +--[[tschwinge]] + +> The encoding of the shortcut text is done so that a shortcut can have +> spaces in it etc and they're converted into a valid url. As in the +> example of a shortcut to the wikipedia page for "War of 1812" (although +> the example puts underscores in, it should also work without them). +> +> I suspect that if I dropped the endoding of characters other than space +> and maybe plus, it would break some shortcuts though. Consider a shortcut +> used to do a google search for "foo&bar". You want to encode the "&" +> in that search, otherwise google will search for just foo! +> +> It does seem to be partly a web server problem, since savannah's viewvc +> doesn't decode the escaped characters in the path string. +> +> I could add a %S that is not escaped, and leave %s escaped.. --[[Joey]] diff --git a/doc/plugins/shortcut/discussion.mdwn b/doc/plugins/shortcut/discussion.mdwn index 159e68ad8..65a2af960 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/shortcut/discussion.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/shortcut/discussion.mdwn @@ -5,14 +5,4 @@ I'd like to use a shortcut like \[[gnumach-1-branch ddb/db_expr.h]] to link to > No reason. Fixed in git. --[[Joey]] -* The URL is rewritten to - , - which the remove server doesn't like. Mind the esacping of [^A-Za-z0-9]. - Might this be a problem of the web server? - -Also, I'd like to put the shortcut usages into backticks --- `[[iki shortcuts]]` -- -to have them displayed in the usual backtick-formatting. -That also doesn't work, but this is an already-reported issue, as far as I know. - ---[[tschwinge]] +> (Moved other issue to [[bugs/shortcut_encoding]].) -- cgit v1.2.3