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use unicode shortcuts, instead: "ampersand hashtag 233 semicolon", change words to symbols. this will provide the right character without the problems. Example: é
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/André_Hazes
So you can use this method to make a link, I made the é in that link with the above method, no spaces before or after the encoding. (But I'm British, I can just press Alt Gr and the "e" key.)
Edited by TheOneWhoTropes Keeper of The Celestial Flame
Wikipedia may also provide plain-ASCII redirects in such cases, which you can use instead of the normal one. Our software is really bad at handling extended characters.
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Thanks, I got it to work using a Unicode character with Ctr+Shift+U.
The specific issue, in case anyone's wondering, is that wiki code also uses the % sign to mark commented-out text, and the current version of the parser is seeing the percentage signs in the URL and commenting part of it out.
I was trying to insert an entry which contained a link to Wikipedia with a special character.
This is the literal link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Hazes
And this is how I put it in the entry: André Hazes
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The problem is, if you click on the link, you get to a "Bad Title" page on Wikipedia". If I copy-paste the link directly in my browser address bar, it does work. I think it's the special character that's the problem.
How to work around this?
Edited by LB7979