How can I escape “/” and "?" characters in asciidoc for inline anchors?

[repomorphic]

Hi there.I am trying to write a program that automatically converts my website to asciidoc one document. But I have problem with asciidoc anchors.When I add "/" character into the anchor my anchors break down.

For example.The following asciidoc code works:

[[en-USdocs...]]
*Tutorials:*
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The following asciidoc code does not work due to the / character.

[[en-US/docs...]]
*Tutorials:*
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The following asciidoc code does not work due to the ? character.

[[en-USdocs?=...]]
*Tutorials:*
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Is there a way to escape this “/” and "?" characters to allow the anchor work properly?And also that would be awesome If I can use special characters such as “/” and "?" in inline anchors.

[elextr]

There is no way of getting illegal characters in the anchor id.

The anchor has to be a valid ID in all targets and so is limited to:

1. alphanumerics
2. underscore (_)
3. colon(:)
4. dot (.) and dash (-) anywhere other than the start of the ID

I suggest your conversion script replace the illegal characters with underscore.

[repomorphic]

Thanks. I have written a regex for replacing those illegal characters but I am wondering why these characters are illegal when I can use these characters in HTML id.

[elextr]

Because targets can still be html 4.