[Pmwiki-users] Re: $UrlPathPattern defined/commented
Christian Ridderström
chr
Sun May 23 06:40:24 CDT 2004
On Sun, 23 May 2004, Crisses wrote:
> > Finally, the second part of the pattern is used to prevent
> > a trailing period, comma, or question mark from being included
> > in the uri, since these will usually be the end of a sentence
> > or phrase rather than the last character of a uri.
>
> because people might link to incredibly stupidly long URLs from things
> like Mapquest or whatever, which might include some of these characters
> (the period, comma, question mark, and other things *strictly* allowed
> by convention) -- shouldn't they be allowed within [[URL]] markup
That sounds like a good idea to me, i.e. that a more permissive pattern is
used for URIs inside [[...]], e.g.
[[http://long.and.complicated.uri/with,weird,characters.]]
> are there languages in which period, comma, question mark, etc. are not
> followed by a space character?
Probably, but don't forget the simple case of forgetting to press space ;-)
/Christian
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