>>> source on windows systems is desired, you'd have to remember to turn
>>> that on when setting up a wiki, even if the wiki was hosted on unix.
>>>
+>>> Ok, `wiki_file_chars` config option added, set to
+>>> `"-[:alnum:]+/._"` to exclude colons from filenames read or written by
+>>> ikiwiki. [[done]]
+>>>
>>> BTW, I suspect there are lots of other problems with actually running
>>> ikiwiki on windows, including its assumption that the directory
->>> separator is "/". --[[Joey]]
+>>> separator is "/". Windows will be supported when someone sends me a
+>>> comprehansive and not ugly or performance impacting patch. :-) --[[Joey]]
+
+> Speaking of Windows filename problems, how do I keep directories ending in a
+> period from being created? The following didn't seem to work.
+> `wiki_file_chars => "-[:alnum:]+/._",`
+> `wiki_file_regex => '[-[:alnum:]+_]$',`