2018-11-04T13:45:02-08:00 http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/ Lussumo Vanilla & Feed Publisher http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/1076/underscores-in-urls/?Focus=15370#Comment_15370 2011-08-04T05:42:38-07:00 2018-11-04T13:45:02-08:00 geraldedgar http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/account/116/

@Kevin: My word processor on its own is likely to change quotation marks and hyphens to non-ASCII things (unless I have done some incantation to prevent that).

@Kevin: My word processor on its own is likely to change quotation marks and hyphens to non-ASCII things (unless I have done some incantation to prevent that).

]]> http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/1076/underscores-in-urls/?Focus=15365#Comment_15365 2011-08-03T06:01:13-07:00 2018-11-04T13:45:02-08:00 Kevin Buzzard http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/account/65/

@geraldedgar: even though I'm British, I _never_ use the UK Pound symbol in an email, for precisely this reason: as far as I am concerned, $ is OK but pound is not, because it's not one of the ...

http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/1076/underscores-in-urls/?Focus=15364#Comment_15364 2011-08-03T05:58:14-07:00 2018-11-04T13:45:02-08:00 geraldedgar http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/account/116/

As time passes, there are fewer and fewer "old timers" who know what ASCII is, and thus more and more people who name their web pages in non-ASCII ways, leading to questions like this.

As time passes, there are fewer and fewer "old timers" who know what ASCII is, and thus more and more people who name their web pages in non-ASCII ways, leading to questions like this.

]]> http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/1076/underscores-in-urls/?Focus=15354#Comment_15354 2011-08-02T08:12:14-07:00 2018-11-04T13:45:02-08:00 Emil J http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/account/514/

A hyphen is not a problem either: Batalin-Vilkovisky algebra. The problem with the original URL is that it is not a hyphen but an en-dash, which is not an ASCII character and therefore needs to be ...

A hyphen is not a problem either: Batalin-Vilkovisky algebra. The problem with the original URL is that it is not a hyphen but an en-dash, which is not an ASCII character and therefore needs to be percent-encoded (as %E2%80%93): Batalin–Vilkovisky algebra.

]]> http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/1076/underscores-in-urls/?Focus=14892#Comment_14892 2011-07-08T09:25:06-07:00 2018-11-04T13:45:02-08:00 Kevin Walker http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/account/36/

Thanks for fixing it. In hindsight, I should have looked at the tips and tricks page first.

http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/1076/underscores-in-urls/?Focus=14891#Comment_14891 2011-07-08T09:14:20-07:00 2018-11-04T13:45:02-08:00 an_mo_user http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/account/491/

The solution is to replace the hyphen (-) by %2D. In this case the underscore is no problemMore generally, some information on potential problems and how to resolve them with URLs is to be found in ...

More generally, some information on potential problems and how to resolve them with URLs is to be found in the Tips&Tricks see http://mathoverflow.net/tips point 7.

I took the liberty to test what I said above; so it is fixed on main already.


ADDED: In view of Emil J recent comment, it seems the explanation is incorrect. Though, what I did/suggested happened to work, for reasons I can guess but do not know.]]> http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/discussion/1076/underscores-in-urls/?Focus=14890#Comment_14890 2011-07-08T07:25:31-07:00 2018-11-04T13:45:02-08:00 Kevin Walker http://mathoverflow.tqft.net/account/36/

I'm having trouble creating a link with a URL that contains an underscore: [this Wikipedia article](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batalin–Vilkovisky_algebra)Any ideas of how to make this work?

[this Wikipedia article](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batalin–Vilkovisky_algebra)

Any ideas of how to make this work?]]>