ragnarhawk
A generalized fix for non-alphanumeric characters in wiki titles would be very nice. Occasionally someone in my campaigns will use a comma, an apostrophe, or some other character and break the link.
I see that @kronovan mentioned a related issue in Helps & Tips here
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Are you talking about typing it out via HTML?
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No, I am adding wiki pages normally, then trying to link to them using the Wiki link tool. Oddly, this appears to be working inconsistently. Sometimes it works as expected, other times it changes the link. I seem to be having more issues with Adventure Logs (with apostrophes particularly) than other wiki pages.
My campaign is private, so I can't share the pages, but one of my players created "Bard's Saga notations". When I add it to the page I get the following Textile "[[Bard's Saga notations | Bard's Saga notations]]", but when I save the page it creates this link: "https://alightinthedepths.obsidianportal.com/wikis/Bard's Saga notations/new".
I created the page"Lar’s Apostrophic Log", and added a link to the page, which produced this Textile "[[Lar's Apostrophic Log | Lar's Apostrophic Log]]", and when I saved the page it created the correct link "https://alightinthedepths.obsidianportal.com/wikis/lars-apostrophic-log"
I have no idea why one is working and the other is not
(Note, the html encoding gets converted when I post this here - the key is that the link substitutes %27 for the apostrophe in the first link, and that the apostrophe is completely removed in the second)I have encountered this issue in the past with apostrophes. I had copy/pasted a city name out of a sourcebook that contained an apostrophe, and later found that my linking to it (even via the insertion button) didn't work. I deleted the page and recreated it manually, and then everything worked just fine. The culprit appears to be the difference between ’ and '
- Kallak
Kallak, there's actually a third apostrophe variant that looks identical to the apostrophe that works but which does not work. I've only ever managed to insert it via copy/paste but it does break links.
Here's a list of every common punctuation mark and whether or not it works for linking: https://abersade-testbed.obsidianportal.com/wikis/special-characters-in-wiki-links
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Interesting stuff about the third apostrophe, I did not know that. In terms of your special characters link, some great work there. If you're okay with it, I'd like to convert it to a Help Area article.
- Kallak
Be my guest.
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