[Phpwiki-talk] Re: eating tildes (yum)

[Martin G. <gim...@gi...>]

aphid <me...@ap...> writes:

> I noticed that tildes in urls are getting eaten..
> ie [http://domain.com/~user/index.html] is resolved as
> http://domain.com/user/index.html
>
> is this a bug or a feature?

I believe this is a feature, the tilde character is the default escape
character in PhpWiki. You use it to escape the normal WikiMarkup so
that you can write things like ~FooBar without making it a WikiWord if
you need to.

To get a normal ~ you have to double it, also in your URLs.

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