[Vim-l] Using '+' in titles and categories

[hermitte at free.fr]

John Beckett <johnb.beckett at gmail.com>:

> There was a discussion about what to call the category for C++. "C plus
> plus" was chosen.

As I remember the discussion, it was "let's use "C plus plus" for the moment, we
will rename the category to Cpp later".

> Now I'm looking at the tip titles and am wondering about
> those that want to use "C++".
>
> Example "STL (Standard Template Library/C++) help via tags":
> http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/VimTip931
>
> Why did we decide to use "C plus plus" for the category? Wikipedia seems
> able to use "C++". The following article is in Category:C++ due to this
> wikitext:
>     [[Category:C++]]
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C++
>
> The Wikipedia rules for titles say that '+' can be a problem (and it gives
> examples where that occurs). But it seems that "C++" is ok for everyday
> usage.

That's why the first C++ category created was "C++" -- "C sharp" name was also
the result of my mimicking the names used in wikipedia. However, I did not test
it enough to notice it was not read accessible (we were systematically
redirected to C category). IIRC, we were only able to edit the category.
A few weeks later, "C plus plus" was created.


> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(technical_restric
> tions)#Plus
>
> Can anyone throw any light on this? Does the wikia.com software handle "+"
> differently from Wikipedia?

Good question.

-- 
Luc Hermitte