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brianman

Burrito Founder
Nov 10, 2011
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I'm getting a strong impression (by web searches on this topic) that the forum should be encoding the special characters in thread titles and it's not.

Please let's keep this thread on-topic about whether the "correct" behavior (as per URL specs) and making sure the forum is behaving accordingly. I'm hoping everyone will be on good behavior regarding the "browser wars". Thanks.


Two current examples that don't load for me (in Windows 8.1 Preview):
  1. Help Green All Of Washington States Highways In 90 Days!
  2. Club Tesla Québec Gatherings

I've underlined what appear to be the problematic characters.

A random helper page from the web:
The URLEncode and URLDecode Page

Input: Help-Green-All-Of-Washington-State’s-Highways-In-90-Days!
Output: Help-Green-All-Of-Washington-State%E2%80%99s-Highways-In-90-Days!

Input: Club-Tesla-Québec-Gatherings
Output: Club-Tesla-Qu%C3%A9bec-Gatherings




Arg, I meant to put this in Site Feedback.
 
Arg, I meant to put this in Site Feedback.

Presto!

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BTW, your underlines are hard to see. Here's what I get from Chrome:

Help-Green-All-Of-Washington-State%92s-Highways-In-90-Days!

Club-Tesla-Qu%C3%A9bec-Gatherings

- - - Updated - - -

And this is Safari:

Help-Green-All-Of-Washington-State%92s-Highways-In-90-Days!


Club-Tesla-Québec-Gatherings


I'm browser-incompetent, and not to start a browser war", but part of the issue is obviously how to account for all the different browsers.
 
...
#27 Spec says "a". Vendor Y does "a". Vendor X does "b". Content matches "b". Vendor Y gets blamed as incompatible (with current content).
#28 Spec says "a". Vendor Y does "b". Ten years later everybody else does "a". Vendor Y gets blamed as incompatible (with spec).
...

Eventually vendor Y retires cause it ain't worth the effort. I guess the only right answer is to split the screen so you can support "a" and "b". Of course with the number of specs and the infinite details, that's a lot of split screening at scale. I think you reach "paper folding limit" type problems.


Anyway, thanks doug.
 
From the New Posts page, this link remains broken for me:

Club Tesla Québec membership!!! Join in
Code:
http://www.teslamotorsclub.com/showthread.php/18532-Club-Tesla-Québec-membership!!!-Join-in?goto=newpost
This attempt at adjusting it doesn't work either:
Code:
http://www.teslamotorsclub.com/showthread.php/18532-Club-Tesla-Qu%C3%A9bec-membership!!!-Join-in?goto=newpost
This link does work:
Code:
http://www.teslamotorsclub.com/showthread.php/18532-Club-Tesla-Qu%C3%A9bec-membership!!!-Join-in
 
Not sure what's not to like about this title's formatting and encoding doesn't seem to help. :(

Code:
http://www.teslamotorsclub.com/showthread.php/21156-Thoughts-on-hypermiling-the-Tesla…

Presumably it's the "small periods" ellipsis.

Compare:

vs.
...

Trying this doesn't help:
Code:
http://www.teslamotorsclub.com/showthread.php/21156
 
Another troubled thread...
Code:
http://www.teslamotorsclub.com/showthread.php/23022-Teslas-Amazonian-Attributes-WSJ-com-—-October-24-2013

I'm pretty sure it's the em dash between the two hyphens just before "October".