[pmwiki-users] Lithuanian - Names of Pages
Andrius Kulikauskas
ms at ms.lt
Mon Dec 5 10:08:14 CST 2005
Hi Patrick,
Here are two different pages:
[[Test Page]] yields:
http://www.ms.lt/lt/index.php/Min%c4%8di%c5%b3Sodas/TestPage
but [[test page]] yields:
http://www.ms.lt/lt/index.php/Min%c4%8di%c5%b3Sodas/testpage
See the pages... It would be good if they went to the same page,
preferably TestPage.
Andrius
Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 05:36:03PM +0200, Andrius Kulikauskas wrote:
>
>>Lithuanian is similar to English in that it is based on the Latin
>>alphabet. What's happening now is that when a phrase is used as a wiki
>>word, then all of its letters are run together without any spaces, and
>>also there is no capitalization of either the first word or the
>>subsequent words. Is capitalization possible with UTF-8? It would be
>>good to have a uniform resolution of the wiki words because otherwise
>>we're getting lower case and upper case variation of the same words and
>>phrases.
>>
>>For our wiki I think the best behavior would be as in English that when
>>a phrase is used as a wiki word, then the name for the associated page
>>is given as capitalized words without any spaces in between, for
>>example: NameOfPage Currently, I'm getting nameofpage Nameofpage etc.
>
>
> Hmmm, I'm not entirely understanding the question. If you're using
> NameOfPage as a wikiword, then the resulting page name should be
> NameOfPage -- PmWiki doesn't change the capitalization of wikiwords.
>
> However, if you're using [[name of page]] as a page link (not a
> wikiword), then PmWiki converts that to NameOfPage as the page name.
> Same thinkg for [[Name of page]] and [[Name Of Page]] -- all of them
> are supposed to be converted into NameOfPage for the pagename.
>
> The utf-8 handler is supposed to understand and properly convert capitals
> for [[page links]], but PHP doesn't provide any convenient mechanism for
> non-ASCII uppercase and lowercase letters in WikiWords. So, the best
> bet is to always use double brackets to denote page links, and that
> should work everywhere. (English/US-ASCII wikiwords should still work
> if wikiwords are enabled, however.)
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Pm
>
>
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