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eppur_se_muova

(36,266 posts) Mon Oct 27, 2014, 12:16 PM Oct 2014

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WOW !! I didn't see any announcement about this ... am I the only one that missed it ?

I just cut-and-pasted a link into a post and DU automagically changed the ( ) to %28 %29 !

Or is that something that Firefox did ?

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WOW !! I didn't see any announcement about this ... am I the only one that missed it ? (Original Post) eppur_se_muova Oct 2014 OP

Pls explain. What's the significance? nt brush Oct 2014 #1

HTML special character substitution Man from Pickens Oct 2014 #2

See this helpful post in the Welcome and Help Forum ... eppur_se_muova Oct 2014 #3

Good stuff. Thanks, eppur_se_muova. nt brush Oct 2014 #7

Firefox does it if you copy from the URL box muriel_volestrangler Oct 2014 #4

OK, thanks ! So I don't owe EarlG for this one, I guess ... eppur_se_muova Oct 2014 #5

My Firefox has been doing some weird things ... JEFF9K Oct 2014 #6

brush

(53,784 posts)

1. Pls explain. What's the significance? nt

Reply to eppur_se_muova (Original post)

Mon Oct 27, 2014, 12:21 PM

Oct 2014

Man from Pickens

(1,713 posts)

2. HTML special character substitution

Reply to brush (Reply #1)

Mon Oct 27, 2014, 12:26 PM

Oct 2014

http://www.ascii.cl/htmlcodes.htm

eppur_se_muova

(36,266 posts)

3. See this helpful post in the Welcome and Help Forum ...

Reply to brush (Reply #1)

Mon Oct 27, 2014, 12:31 PM

Oct 2014

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12561695

There was a similarly helpful thread in Meta-Discussion, but that whole Forum was removed ...

brush

(53,784 posts)

7. Good stuff. Thanks, eppur_se_muova. nt

Reply to eppur_se_muova (Reply #3)

Mon Oct 27, 2014, 02:55 PM

Oct 2014

muriel_volestrangler

(101,321 posts)

4. Firefox does it if you copy from the URL box

Reply to eppur_se_muova (Original post)

Mon Oct 27, 2014, 12:32 PM

Oct 2014

It display a Wikipedia URL as, for instance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_(disambiguation)

but in the clipboard (on Windows, anyway) it's

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_%28disambiguation%29

eppur_se_muova

(36,266 posts)

5. OK, thanks ! So I don't owe EarlG for this one, I guess ...

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Reply #4)

Mon Oct 27, 2014, 12:34 PM

Oct 2014

Just odd that I hadn't run into it before -- I switched to Firefox months ago.

JEFF9K

(1,935 posts)

6. My Firefox has been doing some weird things ...

Reply to eppur_se_muova (Original post)

Mon Oct 27, 2014, 12:45 PM

Oct 2014

so I have started using Google Chrome more often.

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