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Re: Ability to disable URL mangling in makeinfo 4.7?
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
- To: karl at freefriends dot org (Karl Berry)
- Cc: gerald at pfeifer dot com, bug-texinfo at gnu dot org, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 01:42:30 +0200
- Subject: Re: Ability to disable URL mangling in makeinfo 4.7?
- References: <200409142238.i8EMca509412@f7.net>
karl@freefriends.org (Karl Berry) writes:
> Are we restricted to the set of a-z0-9_- also for anchors? Given our
> experience, all web clients seem to support at least '*' as well.
>
> I can believe that other characters are supported in anchor names
> (although I thought that XML had very restrictive rules). In any case,
> it seems simpler to map a node name to the same string, whether it is
> used as an anchor name or a filename, instead of having different rules.
I may be missing something, but isn't %xy the preferred way to quote
special characters in URLs?
Andreas.
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