doc/todo/unaccent_url_instead_of_encoding.mdwn



If one puts localized chars in wikilinks ikiwiki will escape it.
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]]

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]]