[Moin-devel] Bug? MoinMoin, the Opera web browser and national characters

[Karolina Lindqvist]

I spent some hours today trying to track down a bug (which turned out to be 
not a bug, which was why it was so hard to find), where page names that 
contained national characters got scrambled and strange characters inserted.
Finally I tracked down to that Opera handle non-ASCII characters in URL 
strings differently than the other two web browsers that I use, konqueror and 
mozilla (/netscape). I could never understand exactly what happened, but 
sometimes MoinMoin converts non-ASCII characters to the %-convention in URL's 
and sometimes it does not. It appears to work good with konqueror and 
Mozilla, but Opera somehow mistakes that for another character set and it 
gets really strange.

The symptom is that you could look at pages with national character in the 
tiles, type them in as URL's and so on, but could not create such pages with 
MoinMoin.  In such a case, Opera scrambles the URL and MoinMoin gets very 
confused.

-- Karolina