[TETENAL]

The auto-URL-title feature fails with question marks in a box if special characters are in the title. Example:

Madonna in Düsseldorf: Gekreuzigt, aber nicht verdächtig - Kultur - SPIEGEL ONLINE - Nachrichten

Please fix!

[mkbhatia]

What do you mean here? The new system somehow fails to parse out the question marks?

m.

[seanc]

I think he means that the Auto-URL doesn't understand special characters and puts question marks in place of them.

[TETENAL]

Originally Posted by seanc

I think he means that the Auto-URL doesn't understand special characters and puts question marks in place of them.

Yes, that's what I mean. I can type "Düsseldorf" and "verdächtig" without a problem, but the auto-title feature replaces the special characters with question marks.

[baw]

The auto-url thingy sucks.

[mkbhatia]

But you can still access the post, right? I mean does the URL fail or is just cosmetic problems with the URL? Can you point me to an example of URL that looks inappropriate/fails?

m.

[turtle777]

What he means is that when he pastes a URL with foreign characters in a post, the automatic conversion to [url]...[./url] fails to recognize and show the foreign characters correctly. See the URL above. It should show like this:

Madonna in Düsseldorf: Gekreuzigt, aber nicht verdächtig - Kultur - SPIEGEL ONLINE

See the difference to the parsed URL above ?

-t

[TETENAL]

Originally Posted by mkbhatia

But you can still access the post, right?

Yes, one can still acces the linked pages.

Can you point me to an example of URL that looks inappropriate/fails?

Didn't I in my original post?

Madonna in D�sseldorf: Gekreuzigt, aber nicht verd�chtig - Kultur - SPIEGEL ONLINE - Nachrichten

CNN.com - Sunday school teacher dumped�for being female - Aug 21, 2006

What I think happens is the following: The MacNN forum is UTF-8. The auto-title script seems to grab the title from the linked page but does not consider the text encoding of the linked page. So if the linked page is not UTF-8 as well, all special characters get messed up. The auto-title script needs to convert the text encoding in such a case.

[TETENAL]

Still broken as can bee seen in the first post of this thread:

http://forums.macnn.com/95/political...ty-incoherent/

[tooki]

It's probably related to the problem with ® and â„¢ symbols that we've been complaining about for weeks.

tooki

[Big Mac]

The URL parsing is pretty cool.

[andi*pandi]

no, no it's not cool. It's a PITA. I just pasted a simple URL, and got it converted to a paragraph long meta tag.

Welcome to Dover Publications! Since 1941, we've offered great books at amazing prices, including over 600 titles that sell for less than $2.00! With over 8,000 value-priced titles we have books for almost every interest. Dover collections include fun, educational books for Children, a world-renowned series of Science books, not to mention our famous Clip-Art and Music titles. We've got books for Architects, Crafters, Designers, Artists, Civil War buffs and more. Please take a moment to browse our extensive collection. And when you shop at Dover, you may do so with complete confidence. We stand behind every product we sell with our unconditional money-back guarantee.

when all I wanted to post was a simple link to the website, that people can see what URL they are getting, where they are going to!

Code:
http://store.doverpublications.com/

this is making more typing than helping.

[TETENAL]

Well, you can turn it off when posting.

And that web-site has an insane title. I hope Google downranks them for that.

[mkbhatia]

Ok, so Vbull is disavowing any knowledge of any related bug until we go back to a standard configuration. I will try a few other avenues for support now.

m.