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authorhttp://smcv.pseudorandom.co.uk/ <http://smcv.pseudorandom.co.uk/@web>2009-07-26 07:53:52 -0400
committerJoey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2009-07-26 07:53:52 -0400
commit4be57f24659dfa32788bfb144a7afcc766425014 (patch)
tree3a3274c95dc7494b64d1287cea28a575e9b0d0b2
parentfd62f3c0eb35e0ced0d83e6207d1be010032e8b3 (diff)
pass on Joey's comments from another page
-rw-r--r--doc/todo/unaccent_url_instead_of_encoding.mdwn17
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+++ b/doc/todo/unaccent_url_instead_of_encoding.mdwn
@@ -4,6 +4,21 @@ This works right from a technical point of view, but the URLs will become ugly.
So I made a patch which unaccent chars: <http://users.itk.ppke.hu/~cstamas/code/ikiwiki/unaccentpagetitlenames/>
This is a one liner change, but requires a bit of reordering in the code.
-[[cstamas]]
+--[[cstamas]]
+
+> This was previously requested in [[todo/more_customisable_titlepage_function]],
+> in which [[Joey]] said "I don't think that changing titlepage is a good idea,
+> there are compatability problems".
+>
+> The problem is that altering titlepage changes the meaning of your wiki,
+> by resolving all wiki links to different page names. That means that:
+>
+> * unaccenting can't be automatic, it has to be a configuration option
+> (so you don't accidentally get different behaviour by installing
+> Text::Unaccent)
+> * upgrading Text::Unaccent becomes risky, as I doubt it guarantees to
+> have stable rules for how to transliterate into ASCII!
+>
+> --[[smcv]]
[[!tag wishlist patch patch/core]]