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m8e from Sweden Since: Jul, 2012 Relationship Status: Wanna dance with somebody
#1: Feb 10th 2013 at 12:58:03 PM

So whats up with this?

Every time someone links to a wikipedia article with an URL containig non-standard letters in a YKTTW the link ends up as a "enter changes" that redirects to wikipedias Bad title page. It's also impossible to edit replies containing these links.

Sometimes this also messes with the next reply where the edit button, date and the start of that post also links to the Bad title page.(see link 2)

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edited 10th Feb '13 1:17:00 PM by m8e

SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#2: Feb 10th 2013 at 1:07:13 PM

Just added links - they worked for me.

edited 10th Feb '13 1:12:20 PM by SeptimusHeap

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m8e from Sweden Since: Jul, 2012 Relationship Status: Wanna dance with somebody
#3: Feb 10th 2013 at 1:09:28 PM

[up]"non-standard" letters Å. like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%85.

edited 10th Feb '13 1:12:03 PM by m8e

SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#4: Feb 10th 2013 at 1:13:29 PM

Yeah, now I see it too.

The source code I saw there didn't look like the URL, but then Chrome's feature isn't very large.

edited 10th Feb '13 1:28:12 PM by SeptimusHeap

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m8e from Sweden Since: Jul, 2012 Relationship Status: Wanna dance with somebody
#5: Mar 4th 2013 at 11:08:23 AM

Bump and another example.

Is this on Eddies "to-do list"?

Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
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#6: Mar 4th 2013 at 11:11:54 AM

It's one of those oddities with the wiki's URL parser, which like most of the software doesn't understand Unicode. To handle those URLs, use a shortener like http://tinyurl.com or try a non-Unicode dependent redirect if Wikipedia has one.

Edit: On the other hand, something is definitely breaking the parser there in YKTTW. Never mind, this is a genuine bug if it's causing HTML entities to screw up on our side. You can still work around it by using tinyurl but it does need to get fixed.

edited 4th Mar '13 11:17:02 AM by Fighteer

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#7: Mar 5th 2013 at 2:49:43 PM

Update: Eddie is aware of the YKTTW parser issue but doesn't have an immediate fix to offer. Use ASCII redirects or tinyurl as a workaround. The wiki software just plain doesn't accept Unicode.

edited 5th Mar '13 2:50:03 PM by Fighteer

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SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#8: Mar 5th 2013 at 2:51:48 PM

Apparently, that bug turns most of what is below it into this spurious link.

edited 5th Mar '13 2:52:44 PM by SeptimusHeap

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#9: Mar 5th 2013 at 2:52:53 PM

Yes. It is a parser bug. I said that. Eddie does not have the wherewithal to fix it now.

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ArcadesSabboth from Mother Earth Since: Oct, 2011
#10: Jun 24th 2013 at 8:51:19 PM

This has now struck at least one Wordpress link. Here. I thought I had entered a bad link. Didn't realize it was a known bug.

edited 24th Jun '13 8:52:15 PM by ArcadesSabboth

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SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#11: Feb 15th 2016 at 2:41:10 PM

Seems fixed, if no please re-report in Query Bugs.

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