Re: [Tikiwiki-devel] XHTML compatibility breaks useage of special characters?

[Jan D. <jan...@ti...>]

I know that you should not answer your own post, but another possibility to=
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the probelm below is to use the "smiley-syntax", e.g. (:reg:) . Im not sure=
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if any of the smiley names collide with namecodes, but that could be fixed =
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changeing the syntax.

B.R. Jan

On Thursday 30 October 2003 23:43, Jan Docekal wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> Im not sure if I should report this as a bug so I'm asking oppinions form
> the panel. In Tiki 1.7.2 it was possibel to use (X)HTML names for
> characters (e.g. ä or ®). This is no longer possible tw.o and i
> guess that this is also the case with tiki 1.7.4, since that version clai=
ms
> to correct many XHTML compatiblity problmes (one of the things that was
> maentioned was that & was changed to & in links). I guess that this
> correction also has affected the way that pages that uses the wiki syntax
> treat the & sign (it si translated to &). This is not a problem in all
> cases, since there is a character tool that can be used, but all characte=
rs
> are not present in the character tool (e.g. ® © &tau et.al is mo=
re
> or less impossible to include in Tiki now).
>
> Should I report this as a bug? Or does there exsist a workaround (i tried
> to use ~np®~/np but that did not work). If this is a bug I suggest th=
at
> when a & is found a match agains existing namecodes shoudl be tried, and
> only if ther is no match the & should be translated to an &
>
> Best regards, Jan

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