FAUX, Emmanuel wrote: >> Anyway, don't you think this issue is worth a JIRA issue? >> > > My first issue... XE-182 >
Sorry! I'd failed to find it! >> I supposed a discussion here is not needed to create such an issue, but I > >> would like to know if there is some reason to allow all this characters >> like /, \ or ~ that cause problems with documents and attachments names. >> Of course it could be considered a naming convention not to use this >> characters, but if we/I what to promote the use of XWiki among users that >> are not aware of this problems and usually use this characters (and others >> like, ñ, á, é, ö,... ) while naming files and folders. >> > > On my side, users upload attachements with é à / ~ in their names because > they can and they are not aware that it causes some troubles later. > > Those who were trapped do not include special characters anymore but a new > user would certainly include those characters. > -- > Emmanuel FAUX > Yeap, this is a clear solution. But to mess directly with databases is not a great idea... I think :-) As Vincent stated, XWiki is supposed to admit any character. Provided that documents created in XWiki are only intended to be accessed by XWiki or any other database client that will have capacity to correctly handle encoding stuff, it seems that there is not a single reason to avoid this "extended characters". We here try to convince users not to use this characters while naming files, folders or documents as a rule of thumb to avoid a number of problems while switching among platforms here and there, working with computer we can not control the configuration. But of course it will be great to be able of using any character at least while sticking to XWiki. As Vincent does ask, have you configured your XWiki installation for UTF-8? Thanks! Ricardo -- Ricardo Rodríguez Your XEN ICT Team _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
