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* The URL is rewritten to
    <http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/gnumach/ddb%2Fdb%5Fexpr%2Eh?view=log&root=hurd&pathrev=gnumach-1-branch>,
    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]]
> 
> [[done]]