url and parens issue

[ThatGirlAgain]

For what it is worth there appears to be an issue with parentheses in urls.

This form fails to be recognized as a url= type link:

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[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caritas_(charity)]Caritas[/url]

Caritas


This form works with the parentheses removed but does not lead to any web page.

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[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caritas_charity]Caritas[/url]

Caritas


This form, with no url or url= fails in an informative way.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caritas_(charity)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caritas_(charity)


Here is the post where the link appears.
http://debatingchristianity.com/forum/v ... 0&start=14

[McCulloch]

I've run into this problem a few times. Here is a workaround:
Use the table at http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_urlencode.asp and encode the parentheses in the url

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[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caritas_%28charity%29]Caritas[/url]

Caritas

[otseng]

Fixed.

[ThatGirlAgain]

I've run into this problem a few times. Here is a workaround:
Use the table at http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_urlencode.asp and encode the parentheses in the url

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[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caritas_%28charity%29]Caritas[/url]

Caritas

Thank you.

I believe you provided similar advice concerning the use of quote marks in urls, but then otseng made a change to fix it. I do not know if he can fix this one as easily but I was just pointing it out.

[McCulloch]

Fixed.

What good is it to be a nerdy propeller head, if you take away my opportunity to present complex counter-intuitive solutions to common problems?

Now what about the link? If I copy that link into my clipboard and paste, I get this

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ref:[url=http://debatingchristianity.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=414404#414404]url%20and%20parens%20issue[/url]

ref:url%20and%20parens%20issue

In order to make it presentable, I have to reverse the above process thus:

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ref:[url=http://debatingchristianity.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=414404#414404]url and parens issue[/url]

ref:url and parens issue.

[ThatGirlAgain]

Fixed.

You fixed it while I was typing a reply to McCulloch's workaround. Whoa!

[otseng]

Now what about the link? If I copy that link into my clipboard and paste, I get this

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ref:[url=http://debatingchristianity.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=414404#414404]url%20and%20parens%20issue[/url]

ref:url%20and%20parens%20issue

In order to make it presentable, I have to reverse the above process thus:

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ref:[url=http://debatingchristianity.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=414404#414404]url and parens issue[/url]

ref:url and parens issue.

This one I'm not sure how to solve. In IE and Chrome, it copies without encoding the spaces. In Firefox and Safari, it converts the spaces to %20.