On 15/10/05, FxParlant <f-x.p(a)laposte.net> wrote:
I don't know if anybody uses the hack from Thad
Kerovski. Google search
hate the underscore between the words. Thad therefore added two lines of
script in Title.php to make a second variable in the interwiki.
[...]
I post this because I really think it is a very useful
hack and that
maybe other people wish to use it... or even better, that it could be
added in future versions of MW.
Hm, see also
http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/707 - Brion did in fact
suggest having a different placeholder for different encodings of " "
in this way. My own thought was that that seemed rather inflexible and
opaque, and that it might be better to have a field in the database
specifying the preferred encoding of spaces (which might, for
instance, be "_", "%20", "+", "-"...), but
obviously that's more work.
Also noted in that bug discussion are some of the other ways in which
interwiki links currently get mangled due to inappropriate assumptions
about the target. Most problematically, they can't contain characters
which couldn't occur in an internal title.
--
Rowan Collins BSc
[IMSoP]