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Is there any way to force URLs with odd special characters in them to behave as links?

Asked by ETpro (34605points) August 22nd, 2010

Lots of Wikipedia articles have odd URLS with a query string that includes underscore characters and parentheses. The parenthetical attachment on the end of the URL string seems to throw the Fluther parsing engine a curve it can’t catch. For example if I try to link to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicameralism_(psychology) using the usual technique I get Link Anchor Text(psychology). The parenthetical part ends up hanging outside the link, and it doesn’t link to the actual target page. Instead, it usually returns a 404 Page not Found error.

So far, when I run into URLs that won’t form proper, working links using the apostrophes, colon and URL format, I just put the entire URL on a line by itself. That usually works. But is there a trick I am unaware of that will let you use URLs with special characters and get them to work with the Link Text”:URL method?

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