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Textile and non-English links
A recent mundane task for an AI bot flagged this scenario:
If a Chinese full stop immediately follows a Textile link, for example:
"付款方式":/chn/faq_payment。Textile may treat the `。` as part of the URL, producing a malformed link with encoded Chinese punctuation.
Manually adding a space fixes it:
"付款方式":/chn/faq_payment 。Can anyone corroborate this please and let me know if it affects other languages and/or punctuation characters? If so, we might be able to file a Textile bug and have it improve the regex link detector to handle multilingual punctuation.
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Re: Textile and non-English links
Stef, as I have said for the past 20 years, inline Textile (links, <strong>, etc) is NOT compatible with Chinese, Japanese, Mongolian, to some extend Korean, and probably problematic with Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Hindi,…
Reason: the Textile parser need a white-space as a separator.
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Re: Textile and non-English links
I didn’t expect it to be a new thing, but don’t recall seeing a bug filed for it. Maybe I should have looked harder, sorry.
Apologies for wasting your time reminding me.
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Re: Textile and non-English links
Many many moons ago I communicated with the original developer™ of Textile about this issue (required white-space as boundary), that went nowhere (I don’t think it was here on the forum, but rather by email). I kinda lost interest in it, found workarounds (for a while MarkDown despite by dislike for it, it behaves less badly). Now mostly a couple of Textpattern short tags instead of using the Textile code (and a little help box on the side of write area, a little plugin thanks to Oleg).
Here is a little sample Japanese text illustrating a few issues: emps.l-c-n.com/notebook/japanese-with-textile
PS – in theory, for links one could use the <txp:link /> family, but lower level authors do not have access to the links panel
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