tea.mathoverflow.net - Discussion Feed (Dashes in links in comments)

Harry Gindi comments on "Dashes in links in comments" (4469)

2010-04-06T00:09:14-07:00

I believe that the thing about closing parentheses actually does happen.

Anton Geraschenko comments on "Dashes in links in comments" (4468)

2010-04-05T23:51:15-07:00

See also tip number 7 on the tips and tricks page. I agree it would be nice automatically encode some characters in links in comments, but it would be pretty hard to get it right. For example, consider the following comment:

Google (http://google.com) is a good place to search for things. You may also want to check Wikipedia—at http://en.wikipedia.com—when you're searching for stuff before asking your question on http://mathoverflow.net.

In a dumb algorithm, the closing paren would get included in the google url, the em-dash in the wikipedia url, and the dot at then end of the MO url, all of which would break.

Kevin Lin comments on "Dashes in links in comments" (4464)

2010-04-05T19:23:03-07:00

Thanks, Mariano.

Mariano comments on "Dashes in links in comments" (4462)

2010-04-05T18:02:13-07:00

See, by the way, http://tea.mathoverflow.net/discussion/65/markdown-bug-with-links/

Mariano comments on "Dashes in links in comments" (4461)

2010-04-05T17:43:48-07:00

The problem is that that dash is not a dash but an en-dash, a.k.a. U+2013 EN DASH, which is not an allowed character in an URI. It should be percent-escaped (ideally automatically by something...)

Harry Gindi comments on "Dashes in links in comments" (4460)

2010-04-05T17:26:45-07:00

If markdown or html worked in comments, this would be much less of a problem.

Kevin Lin comments on "Dashes in links in comments" (4459)

2010-04-05T17:20:23-07:00

They get messed up.