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bunder
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 Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 6:55 pm Post subject: The URL tag and you! |
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Every now and again I see a broken URL tag, and wanted to offer some help.
URL's containing ASCII characters tend to break the auto-link mechanism and the URL bbcode tag. Here's how to fix that.
These are the more common characters that cause such breakage, and the codes needed to fix them.
| Quote: | Left bracket  %28
Right bracket %29
Backslash %5C |
Here is some examples of a broken link and a proper one:
The original url: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_(disambiguation)
| Code: | | [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_(disambiguation)[/url] |
result: url tags are ignored -> [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_(disambiguation)[/url]
| Code: | | [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_%28disambiguation%29[/url] |
result: url tags do their job -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_%28disambiguation%29
Most of the other ones work fine. Here is a list of ASCII characters, in case the ones you need are not listed above.
Cheers
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bytenirvana
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| Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 8:09 pm Post subject: |
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thats great to know.
Can't the forum software be configured to take this on automagically?
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| Posted: Fri Sep 26, 2008 6:45 pm Post subject: |
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URL encoding (easier to see version)
| Code: | Char Code Char Code Char Code Char Code
0 %30 µ %B5
! %21 1 %31 » %BB
" %22 2 %32 ¼ %BC
# %23 3 %33 ½ %BD
$ %24 ¢ %A2 4 %34 ¿ %BF
% %25 £ %A3 5 %35 A` %C0
& %26 ¥ %A5 6 %36 A´ %C1
' %27 | %A6 7 %37 A^ %C2
( %28 § %A7 8 %38 A~ %C3
) %29 « %AB 9 %39 A¨ %C4
* %2A ¬ %AC
+ %2B ¯ %AD
, %2C º %B0
- %2D ± %B1
. %2E ª %B2
/ %2F , %B4 { %7B | %7C
: %3A A° %C5 } %7D ~ %7E
; %3B Æ %C6 [ %5B c¸ %E7
< %3C C¸ %C7 \ %5C e` %E8
= %3D E` %C8 ] %5D e´ %E9
> %3E E´ %C9 ^ %5E e^ %EA
? %3F E^ %CA _ %5F e¨ %EB
@ %40 E¨ %CB ` %60 i` %EC
A %41 I` %CC a %61 i´ %ED
B %42 I´ %CD b %62 i^ %EE
C %43 I^ %CE c %63 i¨ %EF
D %44 I¨ %CF d %64 ð %F0
E %45 Ð %D0 e %65 n~ %F1
F %46 N~ %D1 f %66 o` %F2
G %47 O` %D2 g %67 o´ %F3
H %48 O´ %D3 h %68 o^ %F4
I %49 O^ %D4 i %69 o~ %F5
J %4A O~ %D5 j %6A o¨ %F6
K %4B O¨ %D6 k %6B ÷ %F7
L %4C Ø %D8 l %6C ø %F8
M %4D U` %D9 m %6D u` %F9
N %4E U´ %DA n %6E u´ %FA
O %4F U^ %DB o %6F u^ %FB
P %50 U¨ %DC p %70 u¨ %FC
Q %51 Y´ %DD q %71 y´ %FD
R %52 Þ %DE r %72 þ %FE
S %53 ß %DF s %73 y¨ %FF
T %54 a` %E0 t %74
U %55 a´ %E1 u %75
V %56 a^ %E2 v %76
W %57 a~ %E3 w %77
X %58 a¨ %E4 x %78
Y %59 a° %E5 y %79
Z %5A æ %E6 z %7A |
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| Quote: | | Can't the forum software be configured to take this on automagically? |
I think this is the easiest route. Can't remember those codes for the life of me. Is this doable? |
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bunder
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| Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 10:52 am Post subject: |
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| Xaero wrote: | | Quote: | | Can't the forum software be configured to take this on automagically? |
I think this is the easiest route. Can't remember those codes for the life of me. Is this doable? |
probably, but it's not worth the work.
in fact, i just checked v3, and it seems to get it wrong too. 
edit: i've been doing some testing on that and i believe it only affects the ) character, and for a good reason... people tend to post stuff like:
| Code: | | blah blah blah (blah blah blah http://www.url.com) |
however, it only affects the auto-url mechanism in phpbb... if you use the url tag, the urls work as expected. more extensive testing could be done, but brackets are the biggest culprit, so it's all i tested at the time.
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| Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 5:42 am Post subject: |
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| bunder wrote: | | if you use the url tag, the urls work as expected. more extensive testing could be done, but brackets are the biggest culprit, so it's all i tested at the time. |
Especially in non-english subforums, other special characters like umlaut characters are also affected. A non-working URL auto detection is, in my opinion, no severe drawback, but at least URLs enclosed in BB tags should be handled correctly.
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