URLs in Posts

I'm not sure if anyone has realized this yet (I just found out by accident), but when you paste a link into the text body of a post, it will many times end up as mojibake. I've found out how to correct this. For some reason, the forum doesn't like when you have "http://" at the beginning of a URL (I guess because it wants to be the one to put it there, but really I don't know), so if you just remove that part and leave it as www.somethingorother (don't click on that -- it goes nowhere) or somethingorother.net/orwhatever, you get just think URL and no mojibake.

Oddly enough, I probably wouldn't have realized this if I hadn't been making a thread to ask about the problem in the first place and testing it out. It was then that I realized that it didn't happen when I copied the URL for this page (the "Post New Thread" page) that there was no mojibake, and then realized there was also no "http://" at the beginning of this URL. Talk about dumb luck! (Well, go ahead -- do it. But keep it amongst yourselves.)

Prince Shōtoku - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%81%96%E5%BE%B3%E5%A4%AA%E5%AD%90

Yeah, quite interesting and extremely useful information! I'll check this way of URL linking when posting.

Um... does this mean it's not working for you?

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OK, so I tried your links too, and I had the same problems. So I don't know.

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Toritoribe said:

Prince Shﾃ?衡oku - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Prince Shﾃ?衡oku - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yeah, quite interesting and extremely useful information! I'll check this way of URL linking when posting.

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Wait... you got it to work? Or only half the time?

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Man, this forum does really strange things to URLs. What's up with that?

Sorry, I just checked various URLs.

Your way works perfectly fine on the wiki page I linked in my previous post(the lower one, the upper one is the ordinary URL), but some sites might be not, so I decided to check them later.

Yeah, I noticed that.

Still, all I did was reply to your post, and it decided to change the hyperlinked text in the quote from what you had in your post. That's strange. Why wouldn't it just leave it alone? That's a general question, actually. Why can't we just post a URL and have it stay the way it is, or only abbreviated where appropriate? It's really odd, and annoying. I like my links to be legible.

Another thing I noticed was that the forum can't handle diacritics that have been pasted from a link, but if you type them in or copy and paste them from somewhere else, they're fine. For instance:

Prince Shﾅ衡oku - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (copy/paste from address bar)
Prince Shōtoku - Wikipedia (typing in the "ō")

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I should add, though, that in the first one, the URL itself was corrupted in the address bar into a string of code for the name (I'm guessing because of the existence of "ō"), and looked like this:

/wiki/%E8%81%96%E5%BE%B3%E5%A4%AA%E5%AD%90

instead of this:

/wiki/Prince_Shōtoku

I'm sure that has something to do with it.

I have seen it as well. Thanks for looking into it, we will try to fix it on our side as well

Glenn said:

Still, all I did was reply to your post, and it decided to change the hyperlinked text in the quote from what you had in your post. That's strange.

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Yeah, I once saw the same problem on this post.

Research for a novel

Hahaha, I had forgotten all about that! I was wondering where I'd seen the 聖徳太子 Wikipedia page linked before on these forums, though.