Bug: Wiki names do not support non-ascii letters

Currently with wiki names "letter" is defined to mean a-zA-Z. While correct for English-speaking countries, this fails miserably just about everywhere else.

It should be easy to fix, just replace the isWikiName TWiki.pm hardcoded

/^[A-Z]+[a-z]+[A-Z]+[a-zA-Z0-9]*$/

with something that uses the current system locale definition of "letter".

This is a fairly big issue on non-english sites, because peoples' names (for example) tend to contain non-ascii letters quite a lot.

Test case

Try to create a link for the Finnish name MikkoYlijärvi. TWiki tries to make a link to MikkoYlij

Environment

-- PetriWessman - 12 Jul 2002

Follow up

This has been filed as an FeatureEnhancementRequest in InternationalCharactersInWikiWords.

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