Apostrophes in URLs

[Morsk he/him]

I just had this problem trying to link to Navani's Notebook on the Coppermind.

Correct: http://coppermind.net/wiki/Navani%27s_notebook

Broken: http://coppermind.net/wiki/Navani's_notebook

• Type out a URL with a %27 in it, the substitution for the Apostrophe.

  a. For example connect http:// and coppermind.net/wiki/Navani%27s_notebook into a URL. (If I posted it all as one string, it would get auto-converted. So I split it.)

• Preview it.

  a. The hyperlink in the preview will work, but

  b. The text in the edit box has been changed, with %27 converted into the ' character.

• Preview it again, or post it again.

  a. The hyperlink doesn't work correctly now.

2b looks like the part where things go wrong.

[Joe ST he/him]

Yes, the WYSIWYG editor infers URLs in a bad way, leaving everyone annoyed. You can't even turn it off D:

[Phantom Monstrosity]

Yes, the WYSIWYG editor infers URLs in a bad way, leaving everyone annoyed. You can't even turn it off D:

PS: speaking of apostrophes, you've got an extra one in you sig's "mind's".

[Morsk he/him]

I wasn't using WYSIWYG, and still had this bug.

From a technical standpoint, I don't understand why it's bothering to convert % codes in posts we make. I thought % codes were only used in URLs, and the converting is done by the web server when it handles the request.

Maybe it's some overactive anti-XSS security feature? If it's not just a bug.

Edited April 12, 2013 by Morsk

[Chaos he/him]

http://coppermind.net/wiki/Shallan's_father

EDIT: To fix, turn off the rich text editor and paste the URL in with a url and /url tag. That was what I just did and that worked.

Edited April 12, 2013 by Chaos

[Morsk he/him]

I can post the URL once and have it work. What goes wrong is if I edit or preview a post with one of those URLs. It comes out wrong the second time, and has to be manually corrected every edit or preview.

It's not a problem for little posts, but it would be a problem for a large FAQ that contained some of these links, to have the maintainer have to fix them on every edit.

Edited April 12, 2013 by Morsk

[Chaos he/him]

That's interesting. Apparently what happens when you edit a post containing that, the url tag becomes url=undefined, and so the link breaks. Very uncool. I don't like that at all.

[Morsk he/him]

I was over-complicating it when I used URLs as the example. You can make a post with some of this

%27 %27 %27 %27 %27 %27 %27

and then preview and post, or post and edit, anything like that. The first time through they're fine, but the second time through they're converted

' ' ' ' ' ' '

Edited April 13, 2013 by Morsk