Last modified: 2012-01-15 14:45:18 UTC
Dear friends, You probably have written lots of lines where you refered to anchors with characters others then A-Z, a-z, 0-9. If used in sections the anchors *some characters* need to be specified with ".XX" values as ".2C" for "," etc. Normaly piped links should be used to have readable result. If you are not shure which characters *must* be replaced you need to make iterative tests. enhancement request: If a section contains characters which would generate ".XX" two anchors should be generated a) the same as until now b) one which would "correspond" to simple "copy and paste" http://test.leuksman.com/index.php/Bugzilla_sections_and_anchors shows olso examples where <nowiki> ... </nowiki> *must* be added in this case but I consider this minor compared to ".XX" character conversion c) situations as \\ where the section differs from the title etc. should be documented Maybe bug 2346: "Special characters break section links in page history" could be handeled by implementing this enhancement. Impact on existing pages by the generation of *already existing* anchors: I assume that very few pages would already have these "alternate" anchors. Note: It is possible to simulate this with a template. Of course only if the special characters are used in the section. Regards Reinhardt [[user:gangleri]]
see restirictions about emulating this with a template at http://test.leuksman.com/index.php/Bugzilla_sections_and_anchors#emulation_with_a_template
bug 670: "special characters in anchor part of interwiki links not escaped 'correctly'" relates to the roots of the problem - what should be achived
We have the {{anchorencode}} function to help convert anchors with multiple special characters now. If this is still a big problem for users, then adding a second, simpler form of the anchor - perhaps a hash? - might be an option...we obviously don't want to change the existing anchors and break user expectations and existing links.
I actually attempted to implement something like this ages ago back in my patch for bug 5019. It would try to normalize characters with diacritics to corresponding plain Latin characters where possible, for instance, and would strip stuff like punctuation that couldn't be put in the anchor. Maybe I should review that patch someday (although Tim doesn't like using wikitext to generate the links and wants to continue using HTML). We can't do a simple copy-and-paste operation, of course, because HTML id's can't contain many characters. Rob, adding total gibberish like a hash to anchors doesn't alleviate the problem of hard-to-read total gibberish in anchors. :)
See also Bug 25107 - Enable section/paragraph hashes to be bookmarked.
See also Bug 16691 - Section headings should have some clickable anchor for passing links
