On Sun, Jan 09, 2022 at 09:32:38AM -0800, Per Bothner wrote: > A related change is that we should change how info node/anchor names are > mapped into URLs to use standard %-encoding. This would make URL cleaner > and more readable. For continuity, we could map space to '-', '-' to '%45', > and other characters as in standard percent-encoding. An initial '-' could > be used for texinfo-internal ids such as the "-toc-foo" or "-def-printf". > (I've suggested this before, I'm pretty sure, but I think it makes sense to > co-ordinate these changes, at least for a specific manual.)
This would break existing links and still not make them that readable. There may be scope, if you create a new URL scheme that is only used by info.js, to change the encoding of node/anchor names, but I don't see how. The "-" prefix for internal id's could be a good idea - I think (but never checked) that there could be conflict with internal id's like index-Foo (for a index entry "Foo") and a node actually called "index Foo" (unlikely, but possible).
