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diff --git a/doc/todo/unaccent_url_instead_of_encoding.mdwn b/doc/todo/unaccent_url_instead_of_encoding.mdwn index d74b632bd..e5ad34335 100644 --- a/doc/todo/unaccent_url_instead_of_encoding.mdwn +++ 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]] |