[url] tag not working?

Warlock82

I was trying to post this link in a topic and noticed the forums didn't parse the url correctly. So I tried to use tags to fix it and it just posted them as plain text:
http://us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/20811888/malthael’s-bargain-6-5-2017

This intentional or is something broken?

Tube

It's not a valid URL, it has an apostrophe in it. It works if you copy paste it, but this is more due to the URL than the software.

Echo

Use the link button in the editor.

us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/20811888/malthael’s-bargain-6-5-2017

edit: or not. That looks like a bug in the URL parser.

Tube

Am I taking crazy pills? Is it not because there's an apostrophe in there?

Bowen

Apostrophes are safe characters for URLs IIRC.

It does break there though.

Echo

That's actually a right single quotation mark, not an apostrophe. I'd encode that for a URL.

http://www.codetable.net/hex/2019

Tube

Thanks Echo! I've told Vanilla about it, maybe there'll be a quick solution.

ArbitraryDescriptor

With 6x the recommended dose of lead

Another. ^ Slightly different in that the link is contiguous, though the tags are still messed up.

Also reposting an old example to see if it behaves differently now (like the above):

us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/20811888/malthael’s-bargain-6-5-2017

E: Nope.

First one again with an apos

With 6x the recommended dose of lead

No hyphens
With 6x the recommended dose of lead

<64 chars
With 6x the recommended dose of lead

zerzhul

test1

test2

Ok so I re-typed it myself and that appears to work. there must be an odd character in there somewhere.

Yup, in the first one which I copied and pasted from your post there are hidden ascii characters that cannot be parsed, where as in the second there are not since I just re-typed the text myself.

the extra character is U+202C

ArbitraryDescriptor

Edit: Sanity check
With 6x the recommended dose of lead

Edit2: Whelp. Fuck everything then.

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ArbitraryDescriptor wrote: »

No hyphens
With 6x the recommended dose of lead

Lies. Still 2 hyphens, actually...

Replace last hyphen
With 6x the recommended dose of lead

Last two
With 6x the recommended dose of lead

Last 3
With 6x the recommended dose of lead

Last 4
With 6x the recommended dose of lead

Bowen

those quotes in :

With 6x the recommended dose of lead

are fucked up and causing the issue, replacing them fixes it

ArbitraryDescriptor

zerzhul wrote: »

test1

test2

Ok so I re-typed it myself and that appears to work. there must be an odd character in there somewhere.

Yup, in the first one which I copied and pasted from your post there are hidden ascii characters that cannot be parsed, where as in the second there are not since I just re-typed the text myself.

the extra character is U+202C

Oh thank god. Thought it might be a weird character I couldn't see, but on a phone.

Oh! Yeah. That absolutely tracks. Those working urls were copy/pasted from a web form to tell me the length. It must have stripped it out.

E: Washing original bad link through same form:

us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/20811888/malthael's-bargain-6-5-2017

Wash didn't work, but looks like those are smart apos in the url. Replacing did.

Bowen

In particular, the last one is causing it:



versus a normal quote:

ArbitraryDescriptor

Of course it was smart quotes. It's always bloody smart quotes.

My gut felt the presence of my arch nemesis behind this; it seems they walked away from that incident in Munich after all...