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What special characters shouldn't be used in Confluence page names?

Nathanael Motz
Nathanael Motz
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October 6, 2016

This question is in reference to Atlassian Documentation: Search

What qualifies as 'special characters' in this context (https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/search-139528.html)? Might be nice to link to that information in the documentation.

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October 6, 2016

This should help:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/confluence-page-urls-contain-pageid-instead-of-the-page-title-278692715.html

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Hans Ginzel
Hans Ginzel
March 14, 2018

It's a bug in Confluence. Vote for CONFSERVER-11285.

Why does not Confluence support at least standard latin1/latin2 characters when even open source Wikipedia does support Unicode chars in ulr. Most modern browsers do transparent url encoding/decoding. E.g. https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kůň (See page “Horse” in Wikipedia in different languages and check uris).

Confluence should not reinvent the wheel and support standard RFC 3986 for “not plain alphanumeric” urls, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent-encoding.

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March 16, 2018

Notice the issue will turn 10 years old on April 1st and is not considered a bug. It will never be fixed/addressed.

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Hans Ginzel
Hans Ginzel
July 31, 2019

Why not? Even free/open source Wikipedia is able to handle nice uris.

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July 31, 2019

Well having worked with Confluence for nearly 10 years, I have seen a number of these zombie issues that clearly aren't on Atlassian's radar. And eventually they get closed as "won't fix"

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