Wiki page wich title contains an accent/special characters

LiuPei

Hello,

I added a new wiki page containing a French accent to the front page of my campaign (e.g. : [[Règles du jeu]]). But, it's not recognized by the parser and I cannot click on it (it's simple text) to create the new page.

Moreover, If I create a "Règles du jeu" wiki page and, then, add the [[Règle du jeu]] tag, the link is not made.

It's really annoying to remove accents since it's like an orthographic mistake.

How can I deal with wiki page which title contains some accents/special characters ?

cgregory

You need to use HTML entities. So [[Règles du jeu]] becomes

[[Règles du jeu|Règles du jeu]]

You can find a list of HTML entities here

https://www.w3schools.com/charsets/ref_html_entities_e.asp

 

LiuPei

Thank you.

I've tried [[Règles du jeu|Règles du jeu]] and [[Règles du jeu]] but it does not work.

I think the problem comes from the adresse of the wiki page, which is https://my_campaign.obsidianportal.com/wiki_pages/r-gles-du-jeu and should be something like r%99gles-du-jeu.

So, there are several problems :
1. [[ègles du jeu]] is not correctly recognized as a wiki page link
2. The accent/HTML-entity is replaced by '-' in wiki page address instead of %99 URL character code.

cgregory

It will work if you use that link to create the page initially, but you will never have the special characters in the URL. But at the end of the day you don’t need to.

You can see that it works by looking at the bottom two links of the page below.

https://dead-men-tell-no-tales.obsidianportal.com/wikis/main-page

that page contains a link to

https://dead-men-tell-no-tales.obsidianportal.com/wikis/r-gles-du-jeu

you can’t just use [[text]]. You need to use the format of [[Text you want to see|URL]] whenever you want to link a page with character that contain encoding.

LiuPei

I understand what your explaining about [[Text|URL] syntax and HTML entities but, unfortunately, it doesn't work for me. I don't understand what I'm doing wrong.

https://m-accorderiez-vous-cette-danse-de-la-mort.obsidianportal.com/wikis/main-page

https://m-accorderiez-vous-cette-danse-de-la-mort.obsidianportal.com/wiki_pages/r-gles-du-jeu

https://m-accorderiez-vous-cette-danse-de-la-mort.obsidianportal.com/wiki_pages/r-gles-d-criture

Anyway, thank you very much for your help.

Abersade

Not sure if it's helpful now but here is a list of the common characters that cause issues as well as the characters that don't.

https://abersade-testbed.obsidianportal.com/wikis/special-characters-in-wiki-links

GamingMegaverse

This issue actually was part of the original Reforge errors, and caused many people to quit- especially those in France or those running french based campaigns.

The original giver of the gold jackets, Black Vulmea, was the most vocal about this issue- goes back years.

LiuPei

Thank you, I think that I'll give up and go away.

I've written to the support without any answer, except return receipt.

weasel0

Support can take a few days. I sent one Friday? Maybe Thursday and only had a response late last night. 

LiuPei

Sure but it's a few weeks from now.