[Wikia-l] Using "C++" in a page or category title

[Emil Podlaszewski]

Hi John,

can you double check this? Recently we upgraded our Apache servers and I
think now they support "+" signs in the article titles. Take a look here:
http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/C++
(or here if the above link doesn't work:
http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/C%2B%2B)


Emil

John Beckett wrote:
> At the Vim Tips wiki (Vim is a programmer's text editor), we have many pages
> with strange symbols, and an issue arises with the C++ programming language.
> 
> On Wikipedia, they happily have:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C++
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:C%2B%2B
> 
> However, on vim.wikia.com, we have found that using "C++" in the title of a
> page gives extreme trouble. I tried it once to confirm reports from others,
> and found it impossible to make a link to the page.
> 
> This is not a big deal, and if that's the way it is, we'll live with it. But
> I'm aware that Wikia software is updated and I'm wondering about the near
> future.
> 
> Is it best to forget about using "C++" in the title of a page?
> 
> One reason I'm wondering is that we use "Cpp" in page titles instead of
> "C++", but we have a category called "C plus plus". I'm thinking of changing
> the category to Cpp, so I thought I should first check whether C++ might be
> suitable instead.
> 
> John
> 
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