Re: [Tiki-devel] Anchors are screwed up

Hi Volker

That sounds possible, odd that no one's noticed before - i suggest you create a wish on https://dev.tiki.org/Make-a-wish and maybe a junior dev can be found to look at it :)

Meanwhile i guess you have to do the underscore replacement yourself...

jonny



> On 15 Jan 2023, at 11:18, Volker Wysk <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi.
> 
> In wikiplugin_aname.php and wikiplugin_alink.php, there's the following:
> 
>    // the following replace is necessary to maintain compliance with XHTML
>    // 1.0 Transitional and the same behavior as tikilib.php. This will 
>    // change when the world arrives at XHTML 1.0 Strict.
>    $aname = preg_replace('/[^a-zA-Z0-9]+/', '_', $aname);
> 
> This means, only latin letters and digits are allowed in anchor names.
> Everything else is replaced by an underscore when rendering the HTML page.
> 
> This (sometimes) works, as long as only the AName and ALink plugins are
> used. But it doesn't, when the subsection part in an internal link is used -
> ((Page|#Subsection|...)). I've tried it with "((Ankertest|#Überschrift-
> Anker))" and got a subsection part of "#%C3%9Cberschrift-Anker" in the
> generated HTML.
> 
> The subsection part needs to undergo the same treatment as the anchor name,
> which the AName plugin does, when this is supposed to work.
> 
> Anchors which are generated from headings are different as well. I've tried
> it with a heading called "Überschrift dazwischen", and the resulting anchor
> name in the HTML page is "berschrift_dazwischen".
> 
> And what about languages that don't use a latin alphabet, such as many Asian
> languages? The complete anchor names will be replaced by an underscore.
> 
> Anchor handling is really screwed up.
> 
> The world has "arrived at XHTML 1.0 Strict" long ago - in 2002, it says in
> the https://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/ page. So it's time that "this will
> change".
> 
> Regards,
> Volker
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