[xwiki-devs] [Discussion] Filtering document names at creation time?

[Artem Melentyev]

Paul Libbrecht wrote:
> careful: suppressing them may get down to an unreadable format.
> 
> I'm interested to know what you suggest wrt accented characters. It has 
> caused many problems in i2geo.net and the reason seems to be an 
> incomplete treatment of URL encodings (still can't know where). I still 
> find it'd be great to allow the accented characters to be part of URLs.

I don't see any problems if UTF8 encoding is used.
See http://amelentev.myxwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Sandbox/àáâãäåæçèéêë
(Is this accents? :))

> I am surprised that "." (dot) is proposed to be suppressed and don't 
> know the place in the syntax where it would be a problem.

Yes, dot is most wanted special charter.
I think we should remove it as special, when move to some spaces
hierarchy (XWIKI-354 or tags or else).

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   Artem Melentyev