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#1 2006-07-27 12:27 pm
- jerwin
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Special characters in BBCode
I've been having a problem with writing URLs that contain special characters, such as apostrophes, right and left brackets, etc. Is there any way to properly encode these?
for an example, see this post
The url referenced in
Wikipedia says
should have a apostrophe in it.
Code:
Wikipedia [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Patricia's_Canadian_Light_Infantry]says[/url]
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#2 2006-07-27 12:37 pm
Re: Special characters in BBCode
Test Test
I see what you mean it strips the apostrophe.
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#3 2006-07-27 12:40 pm
- jerwin
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Re: Special characters in BBCode
Didn't work.
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#4 2006-07-27 12:43 pm
Re: Special characters in BBCode
jerwin wrote:
I've been having a problem with writing URLs that contain special characters, such as apostrophes, right and left brackets, etc. Is there any way to properly encode these?
Code:
[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Patricia%27s_Canadian_Light_Infantry]
Code:
[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Patricia's_Canadian_Light_Infantry]
Between the two, URL encoding is probably easier to deal with on PunBB.
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#5 2006-07-27 12:50 pm
Re: Special characters in BBCode
I guess that works too. We at least need a page with those sort of substitutions on it, if only one like Oatmeal's smilies page.
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#6 2006-07-27 12:51 pm
- jerwin
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Re: Special characters in BBCode
many thanks.
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#7 2006-07-27 5:57 pm
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Re: Special characters in BBCode
ScifiterX wrote:
I guess that works too. We at least need a page with those sort of substitutions on it, if only one like Oatmeal's smilies page.
They're out there, on the internet. See if you can find one.
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#8 2006-07-27 9:08 pm
- jerwin
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Re: Special characters in BBCode
something forum specific would be nice. There might be many dialects of BBcode.
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#9 2006-07-27 9:21 pm
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Some stuff isn't listed on a lot of sites, like "'" ironically.
http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/html/ … coding.htm
http://www.oclc.org/support/documentati … ecchar.htm
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#10 2006-07-27 9:23 pm
Re: Special characters in BBCode
Ok got one.
I'm sticking this topic so people can always find it.
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