Ability to disable URL mangling in makeinfo 4.7?

[Andreas Schwab]

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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