respinse

[ikiwiki.git] / doc / bugs / i18n_characters_in_post_title.mdwn

diff --git a/doc/bugs/i18n_characters_in_post_title.mdwn b/doc/bugs/i18n_characters_in_post_title.mdwn
index 112123355d9ab3fc49b5d3616252e602aac9d557..f5ed4deee6e9041077cb200071090c13d3b82ae4 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/bugs/i18n_characters_in_post_title.mdwn
+++ b/doc/bugs/i18n_characters_in_post_title.mdwn
@@ -23,4 +23,21 @@ I hope it's a bug, not a feature and you fix it soon :) --Pawel
 >> as used in IMAP folder names with non-Latin letters? --Pawel
 
 >>> Joey, do you intend to fix that bug or it's a feature
->>> for you? ;) --Pawel
\ No newline at end of file
+>>> for you? ;) --Pawel
+
+>>>> Of course you can put Polish characters in the title. but the page
+>>>> title and filename are not identical. Ikiwiki has to place some limits
+>>>> on what filenames are legal to prevent abuse. Since
+>>>> the safest thing to do in a security context is to deny by default and
+>>>> only allow a few well-defined safe things, that's what it does, so
+>>>> filenames are limited to basic alphanumeric characters.
+>>>>
+>>>> It's not especially hard to transform your title into get a legal
+>>>> ikiwiki filename: 
+
+       joey@kodama:~>perl -MIkiWiki -le 'print IkiWiki::titlepage(shift).".mdwn"' "Błąd"
+       B__197____130____196____133__d.mdwn
+
+>>>> Now, as to UTF7, in retrospect, using a standard encoding might be a
+>>>> better idea than coming up with my own encoding for filenames. Can 
+>>>> you provide a pointer to a description to modified-UTF7? --[[Joey]]