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Anton Geraschenko comments on "Markdown bug with links" (3100)

Anton Geraschenko — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:56:32 -0800

"I should have checked more carefully"

No, I think you did exactly the right thing. The editor (and me, for messing up the fix to the editor) is to blame. You should now be able to copy and paste all you like.

José Figueroa comments on "Markdown bug with links" (3094)

José Figueroa — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:34:14 -0800

Ah -- thanks! I did not retype the links but copy/pasted from the URLs in the URL bar on Chrome. I should have checked more carefully :( Cheers!

Anton Geraschenko comments on "Markdown bug with links" (3092)

Anton Geraschenko — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 08:31:23 -0800

@figueroa: Thanks for the bug report. It was the hyphen in "Sine–Gordon" and also the one in "Kramers–Wannier" ... it's an en-dash rather than a hyphen (or something like that). Compare: –-.

I must have accidentally removed the WMD patch when I implemented the live math preview (so that the input box doesn't crawl). I'll fix it now. Edit: it should auto-encode funny characters again now.

José Figueroa comments on "Markdown bug with links" (3091)

José Figueroa — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 07:47:35 -0800

I have found this bug in my answer to this question: http://mathoverflow.net/questions/15568/classical-limit-of-quantum-systems/15586#15586

I'm adding the links using the link editor. After reading this meta page I looked again at the links, but cannot find the offending character.

Anton Geraschenko comments on "Markdown bug with links" (707)

Anton Geraschenko — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:03:49 -0800

I've implemented this patch on MO and faketestsite, so any links added through the editor's interface (i.e. links not added "manually") should get automatically encoded. Please report any bugs here.

Scott Morrison comments on "Markdown bug with links" (679)

Scott Morrison — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:11:09 -0800

If anyone was wondering, this is a well-known problem over at meta.stackoverflow.com, e.g.. It isn't going to be fixed, apparently.

Anton Geraschenko comments on "Markdown bug with links" (678)

Anton Geraschenko — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:07:30 -0800

The problem was the letter Č in the link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone-Čech_compactification. Here's a pretty minimal example.

In the case of Dave's question, I just changed the Č to a C (which is the canonical name for that Wikipedia page anyway). If there were some URL that really required you to have a Č, I think you'd have to percent encode the character, like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone-%C4%8Cech_compactification. The computer I'm using right now seems to automatically percent encode when I copy and paste URLs.

Scott Morrison comments on "Markdown bug with links" (674)

Scott Morrison — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:42:47 -0800

See Dave Penneys' question. Too much got linkified. Presumably we should produce a minimal example on faktetestsite.