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tzor
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### URL tag does not handle links with non alphanumeric

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Post by tzor » Thu Nov 05, 2009 3:32 pm

characters.
This is especially important when dealing with wiki; spaces and quotes are common. Spaces might be difficult in general without allowing "" within the url code (as it the case for quote) but the use of single quote can prevent the url tag from parsing and will cause the auto parser to stop at the single quote as well.
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Zherog
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Post by Zherog » Thu Nov 05, 2009 4:34 pm

This is a known bug/feature of the software. However, I think you can use hex codes to replace the offending characters. Let's see... (this was the first page I found on wikipedia with a paren; I got there from the random page and started clicking links.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Episcopal_ ... ed_States)
Wikipedia page
Both of those should be broken.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Episcopal_ ... _States%29
Wikipedia page
Both of those should work. You can find an ASCII chart here. To encode it in a URL tag, find the hexadecimal number of the character you need and stick a percent sign in front of it. So, for example, ( becomes %28.
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Post by Crissa » Fri Nov 06, 2009 5:25 am

Good point, Z.
Thanks!
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tzor
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Post by tzor » Fri Nov 06, 2009 2:35 pm

It's nice to know there is a workaround. Thank's Z!
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Zherog
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Post by Zherog » Fri Nov 06, 2009 4:00 pm

This thread does remind me, also, that I've been meaning to hack the database to make the title field larger.
* makes a mental note for this weekend *
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