Re: [Phpwiki-talk] PHPWiki accent support

[Jeff D. <da...@da...>]

Thank you for the comments Christian,

>I'm quite new to PHPWiki and not at all familiar with it, but I've noticed
>that at least in the default configuration there is no support for
>entitized accents (=C1 becoming Ã) as we commonly use in non-english
>countries.

Yes, but you can type them in as ISO-8859-1 eight-bit characters 
just fine.  (What you have to do to type these in depends on your
OS & browser &c.)

Do we want to support entities in the page text?  If we do then
'&' suddenly becomes a magic character.  (I vote against it.)

One cheap solution which might help a few people would be to add a
line containing the funky characters to the editpage.html form.
That way, people who can't figure out how to type in an accented
character could at least cut and paste the one they want.

>In my case, I've ... changed WikiNameRegexp to allow accents
>in the link names.

This has been done in the development branch.

It probably won't be done in the stable branch, since that would
change the semantics of existing wikis.  (I suppose the alternative
WikiNameRegexp could be added in a comment, though.)

See also:
 http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/index.php?WikiNameRegexp

Jeff