[Mediawiki-l] linking to C++

[Brion Vibber]

Andrew n marshall wrote:
> 
> Brion Vibber wrote:
>> We use an alias to get /wiki/Anything to work. An
>> alias also has benefits over a rewrite rule in that it doesn't foul up the
>> already-encoded 'special URL characters'.
>>   
> 
> Hmm... Okay.  That is a long list of aliases.

One alias is a long list?

>>> The comment doesn't reference problems with the '#' character (as in the 
>>> C# programming language).  Are there known problems with that as well?
>>>     
>> # is the separator between a title and a fragment identifier. It cannot be made
>> legal as an actual title character or you'll break all section links.
> 
> I meant as a article title character, when added to the legal character 
> list.  Obviously this would need to be URL encoded by Mediawiki, but 
> that is the trivial part.

As mentioned, # is the separator between a title and a fragment identifier. Thus
it cannot be used in the title part.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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