What symbols to avoid when exporting as HTML

[teacher24_70]

When I export my database as HTML to upload to Mobile Me, I'm constantly getting crazy characters in the "Site Name" that make it almost impossible for me get to the website URL.

Spaces, apostrophes, etc. in the Site Name creates crazy symbols in the URL and then the given URL for the site doesn't always work.

[Alex]

That is correct, HTML will encode anything that is not a letter. For example, a space will be encoded as "%20". Even letters in non-english alphabets will get a symbol, example: ñ = ñ, é = é etc.

[sjk]

Assuming I even understand this problem I'm not seeing it when doing a MobileMe export from DVDpedia.

[marumari]

What template are you using? I believe there is a template configuration parameter called "uidNaming" that lets you choose whether the subpages are named by the their title, or by their entry number, in the database (as such, named: page1.html, page2.html, page3.html, and so on).

[sjk]

I believe there is a template configuration parameter called "uidNaming" …

It's in the list of possible tags on the Creating a Template page:

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<meta name="uidNaming" content="yes/no/title/sort" />

[marumari]

Yep, that's what I was referring to.

Try doing a custom template and adding this to the top:
<meta name="uidNaming" content="yes" />

And see if that fixes the funky URL issues?