[pmwiki-users] Anchors that starts with umlaut characters

Joachim Durchholz jo at durchholz.org
Wed Jun 29 07:00:08 CDT 2005


Peter Brink wrote:

> I have a bit of trouble with anchors whose name starts with an umlaut 
> character.

Umlauts are illegal in anchor names. That's a restriction of HTML: the 
anchor name becomes part of the URL, and URLs are restricted to 7-bit ASCII.
You can URL-encode the umlauts, but that doesn't make much sense since 
all places where the URL would be displayed (wiki text, browser address 
bar) will usually display just the raw text.

(BTW the same applies to directory and file names. I find that 
unfortunate myself.)

 > I've searched the net for clues but found nothing illuminating.

See http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/appendix/notes.html#non-ascii-chars .

Regards,
Jo



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