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Skald
 moderator, 945 posts
 Whatever it is,
 I'm against it
Fri 26 Nov 2021
at 07:18
 msg #1
Missing wiki page names with apostrophes
Just discovered that a couple of my RPoL wiki pages had vanished ... and after only an inordinate amount of time discovered that the common theme was that both page names had an apostrophe in them (don't blame me - I didn't name the characters !  <grins> )

Anyone got a workaround for this or is this something for jase to look at (ie is a syntax problem or a wiki setting) ??

I've tried using ISO code for the apostrophe &apos; which displayed correctly but didn't work (ie didn't find the page it's supposed to link to).  WAS working in the past, since I managed to set up the linked pages correctly the first time, but I don't know enough about wikis - maybe standards changed somewhere along the line and apostrophes are no longer supported.

Currently just dropped the apostrophe to keep it working, though I'm mindful that most of my place names are littered with apostrophes so there's bound to be more wiki links that I'll need to track down.

This message was last edited by the user at 04:58, Sat 27 Nov 2021.

CaptainHellrazor
 member, 191 posts
Fri 26 Nov 2021
at 15:43
 msg #2
Missing wiki page names with apostrophes
I just dropped the apostrophes, couldn't find any other workaround.  I am not sure if there are other characters that cause the same result but I found it easier to keep page names simple in the Wiki.
Skald
 moderator, 952 posts
 Whatever it is,
 I'm against it
Fri 31 Dec 2021
at 04:11
moderator post | [quote] | [reply] | msg #3
Missing wiki page names with apostrophes
Curiouser and curiouser ...

Just noticed that the game system list (the pop-up that you can access from the browse/search function on the main page) isn't rendering special characters correctly - specifically:

In Nomin�
Yesterday�s Tomorrow
Zweih�nder

I'm getting the same mileage for both old and new responsive sites and in both Firefox and Edge browsers on Windows 10 PC.

Particularly eyeing that issue with the apostrophe in what should be Yesterday's and wondering if that's related to the above-mentioned single quote problem on the RPoL wiki.
nauthiz
 subscriber, 748 posts
Fri 31 Dec 2021
at 05:54
 msg #4
Missing wiki page names with apostrophes
If you look at the source code for the "full list" popup, the game names you identified are input/listed the same way, with the missing special characters.

HTML:
<li>In Nomin�</li>


However In Nomine displays correctly in the drop down list available from the Game System input field.

Checking that code reveals they're input/listed correctly.

HTML:
<option value="In Nominé">


Yesterday's Tomorrow and Zweihänder are also correct in the code, though those don't display in the drop down list as (I think) it's limited to 60 entries, so it cuts off in the V's.

I don't know if this is related to the Wiki issue at all, just saw your post and decided to poke at it and noticed the discrepancy which might be causing the issue you identified with the pop up system list.  I don't even know enough about modern web programming to figure out if that list is being pulled from somewhere for each purpose, and so getting mangled in that process, or if it's manually input both times and one was correct and the other was not.

This message was last edited by the user at 05:55, Fri 31 Dec 2021.

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