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Special characters in Wiki page titles break the doubled-parentheses type of link

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Subject
Special characters in Wiki page titles break the doubled-parentheses type of link
Version
3.x
Category
  • Usability
  • Feature request
Feature
Wiki Syntax (text area, parser, external wiki, etc)
Resolution status
Invalid
Submitted by
jimratliff
Lastmod by
Marc Laporte
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(0)
Description

There are many common non-alphanumeric characters that, when part of the title of a wiki page, break the ability to link to that page using the ((Name of page)) method.

Characters which cause this type of linking to break include: comma (,), apostrophe ('), hyphen (-), question mark (?), asterisk (*), and percent sign (%).

The consequence is (a) you're extremely limited in what characters you can include in titles or (b) you have to link to a page by its URL. (b) is very limiting, because when a page is renamed, all the links to it will break.

Test with this:
((test,test)) ((test's test)) ((test-test, hyphen)) ((test? question mark)) ((test*test asterisk)) ((100% correct)) ((this should work with no problems)) ((test_underscore))

You'll see:
((test,test)) ((test's test)) ((test-test, hyphen)) ((test? question mark)) ((test*test asterisk)) ((100% correct)) this should work with no problems? test_underscore?
In other words, all but the last two page names ("this should work with no problems" and "test_underscore") were not treated correctly as being links to web pages.

Solution

Just change the option in the admin panel.

Admin -> Wiki -> Wiki link format

Default setting is now, by default, the most permissive in Tiki5

Importance
6
Priority
30
Demonstrate Bug on Tiki 19+
Demonstrate Bug (older Tiki versions)
Ticket ID
2755
Created
Sunday 20 September, 2009 20:33:43 UTC
by Unknown
LastModif
Friday 15 January, 2010 22:42:44 UTC


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