URLs and Umlauts

[Ancient of Years]

When urls are scanned by BBCode, in url= statements or in open text, an umlaut stops the scan.

Example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schrödinger%27s_cat

[Divine Insight]

When urls are scanned by BBCode, in url= statements or in open text, an umlaut stops the scan.

Example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schrödinger%27s_cat

You can avoid this by using the [ URL ] tags.

Just enclose the URL in tags like this:

[ url ]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schrödinger%27s_cat[ /url ]

(without the spaces inside the tags like the following:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schrödinger%27s_cat

You can also then add your own text if you like like so:

[ url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schrödinger%27s_cat ]Schrödinger's Cat[ /url ]

Again, without the spaces in the URL tags it produces:

Schrödinger's Cat

(complete with an umlaut in your text as well)

[Ancient of Years]

When urls are scanned by BBCode, in url= statements or in open text, an umlaut stops the scan.

Example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schrödinger%27s_cat

You can avoid this by using the [ URL ] tags.

Just enclose the URL in tags like this:

[ url ]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schrödinger%27s_cat[ /url ]

(without the spaces inside the tags like the following:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schrödinger%27s_cat

You can also then add your own text if you like like so:

[ url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schrödinger%27s_cat ]Schrödinger's Cat[ /url ]

Again, without the spaces in the URL tags it produces:

Schrödinger's Cat

(complete with an umlaut in your text as well)

Thanks for the response.

The [url ] etc. works fine. But it is the [url= that I originally had in my post and it displayed the entire [url etc. string as text. I looked at it about 16 times trying to see a problem and did not find one. I tried doing it as the open text url and found the umlaut problem. So... I made some dumb mistake that I could not find but then found another problem trying to circumvent it?

Cue One Step Beyond trope: oooooWEEEEooooo

[Divine Insight]

Schrödinger's cat will bite the dust when the umlaut kills the lynx
and the URL will go to hell when syntax works its jinx
but the conscious observer will feel the pain when he gets all the blame
and all of mankind will be in shame proclaimed in Jesus' name

Åmën