Link to the Wiki not behaving as expected

[Mostelin]

On the Adaptation tab there is a link to a relevant page in the Knobkraft Wiki. On my system this links to the Ensoniq ESQ-1 page using the following url:

https://github.com/christofmuc/KnobKraft-orm/wiki/Ensoniq-ESQ-1

The odd thing is that, while this appears to be the correct url, the Wiki does not display the page, but instead suggests the user 'Create new page'.

I suspect this is a relatively new issue, as memory tells me this used to work as expected. I suspect it is getting confused by the '-' characters in the string.

[christofmuc]

Thanks for reporting!

This is funky.

When I visit the page with my browser and copy the URL from the browser address bar into notepad, I see:

https://github.com/christofmuc/KnobKraft-orm/wiki/Ensoniq-ESQ%E2%80%901

which is Unicode encoding. Asking ChatGPT:

"The strange part of the URL, %E2%80%901, is a UTF-8 encoded character. Let me decode it for you.
Decoding %E2%80%901

The sequence %E2%80%90 represents the Unicode character U+2010, which is the Hyphen (‐). It's a typographically correct hyphen and differs from a simple ASCII hyphen-minus (-).
Decoded URL

The full decoded URL is:

https://github.com/christofmuc/KnobKraft-orm/wiki/Ensoniq-ESQ‐1

Here, the "‐" is a proper hyphen. If you copy this decoded link, it should work the same as the original URL."

So github has converted our Wiki page into a page with a hyphen, not a minus. Looks the same, but I would be surprised if we have created the page with a hyphen originally.

[christofmuc]

Lol, Gitlab has the same problem, but they have documented the workaround: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss/-/issues/43795

[christofmuc]

Maybe we created it ourselves after all: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/77244370/linking-to-a-page-with-a-dash-hyphen-in-the-title-in-github-wiki

I think the best solution would be to assume it is a Unicode hyphen character, and fix the link in the KnobKraft software. We need to check though if all pages have this problem.

[Mostelin]

Thanks for investigating. There's nothing I can do to help, by the looks of it.

[christofmuc]

This is even weirder. I now create the page with the normal dash instead of the unicode hyphen, intending to move your doc into the page that is linked from the software.

But the page I just created already has a long history of your edits:
https://github.com/christofmuc/KnobKraft-orm/wiki/Ensoniq-ESQ-1/_history

I think on May 26 some github code ran and changed the title of the page to the real hyphen instead of the dash we had before. And it lost all history of that page before, because that was stored under the dash address, which I now reactivated by recreating the page.

Would you mind to move the content over to the dash address, then we can redirect the hyphen page to the dash page, and the link in the software is correct again?

[christofmuc]

Ah, or it was your own edit on May 26: Maybe you changed the title from "Ensoniq ESQ 1" to "Ensoniq ESQ-1", and github change the link of the page to include the hypen. Because the space in the original title is converted to a dash in the URL. I think we should move your content and keep the space in the title, even if it is incorrect. But the link will work.

[Mostelin]

If using the title 'Ensoniq ESQ 1' fixes the problem, then let's do that. It is a typographically incorrect title, but everyone will know what it refers to.

[Mostelin]

I think I overlooked your question - no, I don't object to changing to using the typographical dash in place of the hyphen.