[OSM-talk] Modifying variable in wiki

[Konrad Skeri]

>> How do I modify a variable in a template on the wiki.
>>
>> In the Swedish version of the place-template there's a link to a
>> weather site with forecasts for the city. Works for all Swedish cities
>> as long as there is no space in the area name. However, for Vastra
>> Gotaland the url of the area part to the weather site has to be
>> Vastra_Gotaland. Is there a simple way to handle this (changing spaces
>> to _) within the wiki-templare, or do I have to pass a url-friendly
>> area name as a variable?
>
> Maybe the anchorencode function is what you need?
>
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Magic_words
>

That seems to work with one exception - it doesn't handle non-English
characters in the same way as urlencode, so I'm getting invalid URLs
for e.g. "Västra Götaland". I've also tried nesting them without any
useful results.

Konrad