[pmwiki-users] Allowable characters

[sti at pooq.com]

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Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
>> Not a dumb question at all.  Not all Wikis are the same in this respect;
>> MediaWiki *does* allow '(' ')' in page names -- it's just that PmWiki
>> doesn't.
> 
> In retrospect I somewhat wish that I had chosen '{' and '}' to
> mean "suppress text in the link" instead of parens.

I've long been meaning to take a look at what it would take to write a recipe
that would allow any legal HTML string for a page name. There would be some
sort of escape convention so that one would write something like:

[[Pathe \(Films\)]]

To have a page named 'Pathe (Films)'. I'm not sure what the best escape
character would be. I'm partial to both '\' and '%', but both also have
complication. Of course, right now I have too much on my plate to tackle this,
but I do wonder how much work it might be.
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