As designed Link with ' character breaks the link?

[noxa]

Hi,

I am having this issue where if any link contains ' characters, it auto disables the link and render the link as text.

For example:

https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/User_blogsychomaster35/Porkchop_‘n_Flatscreen:_Kiss_My_Compilation

Not sure if this is a bug or not. Need some help.

Thanks!

 

[Paul B]

I'll move this to bugs as even pasting the string into the URL field via the insert link button, or manually wrapping it in url tags doesn't work.

https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/User_blog:psychomaster35/Porkchop_‘n_Flatscreen:_Kiss_My_Compilation

https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/User_blogsychomaster35/Porkchop_‘n_Flatscreen:_Kiss_My_Compilation

https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/User_blogsychomaster35/Porkchop_‘n_Flatscreen:_Kiss_My_Compilation

Replacing ‘ with ' does work however - although I'm not sure if ‘ is a valid character for a URL.

https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/User_blogsychomaster35/Porkchop_'n_Flatscreen:_Kiss_My_Compilation

 

[digitalpoint]

A colon isn't an ideal character to use in a URL, but it is technically allowed. For example Apache on Windows doesn't support serving pages like that. Ironically, the page that documents that has a colon in it's URL.

Manual talk:Short URL/Archive 1 - MediaWiki

www.mediawiki.org

 

[noxa]

Thanks for the quick reply.

Ideally, normal users do not understand the concept between using ‘ with '. They just copy-paste links from another place. The best solution would be to deal with anything that breaks the link rendering.

 

[Mike]

The thing is, ‘ isn't valid in a URL. If you actually go to the URL manually and then copy it out of the browser, what you actually get is:

https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/User_blog:Psychomaster35/Porkchop_%E2%80%98n_Flatscreen:_Kiss_My_Compilation

This has the proper encoding of the character. If the URL is copied out of the browser, it should always give you the correct/valid URL, with the proper encoding, even if it visually displays the URL differently. This would tend to only come up with situations where a URL is manually typed in.

2.2 did tighten up the requirements on URL linking by confirming that the URL is valid and we might make some changes there (see https://xenforo.com/community/threads/links-with-blank-spaces-doesnt-work.186696/) but I can't really guarantee it. I'm going to call this "as designed" on the basis that this isn't a valid URL but keep an eye on that other bug as there might be some changes coming (though they may only apply to something like spaces rather than arbitrary non-ASCII characters).