[ewiki] numbers in WikiLinks

Hey folks,

I've lately found some notices about numbers in WikiLinks. The Wiki
linking scheme (BumbyText) is very familiar to programmers, and
traditionally (in most other Wikis) numbers are considered to belong
to the group of small letters, that is:
[1234567890abcdefghijk...]

But IMO numbers in text look far more like big letters:
[A1B2C3D4E5F6G7H8I9J0K...]

So I'd now favour to make numbers belong to the group of upper characters
(EWIKI_CHARS_U). This for example would lead to the following being no
WikiLinks any longer:

* W8Watchers
* OoO0

But then following would be treated as WikiWords:

* Something2tell
* 5apples4rent

Personally I'd see this as enhancement and more user-friendly than the old
way (like other Wikis). Of course it is not that a dramatic change at all,
because numbers are rather rare at the start of words, and so this wouldn't
lead to that many accidential links.

Whatever, are there any votes against this change?


mario

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