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PCThaiICT
PCThaiICT
Spaces in links
Jan 7 2008, 12:46 PM EST | Post edited: Jan 7 2008, 12:46 PM EST
Is there any way to prevent Wetpaint from replacing the spaces (or %20's) in external links with +'s? I would rather make a tricky change on the wiki than try to force a naming convention change with our external attachment hosts. Do you find this valuable?    

Jason_wetpaint
1. RE: Spaces in links
Jan 7 2008, 12:57 PM EST | Post edited: Jan 7 2008, 12:57 PM EST
That's a bug on our side. We'll have it fixed in our next release. Sorry for the trouble. Do you find this valuable?    
StagePage
StagePage
2. RE: Spaces in links
Jan 7 2008, 7:35 PM EST | Post edited: Jan 7 2008, 7:35 PM EST
When is the nex release suppose to be? Do you find this valuable?    

Jason_wetpaint
3. RE: Spaces in links
Jan 8 2008, 6:40 PM EST | Post edited: Jan 8 2008, 6:40 PM EST
A couple of notes:
1. Spaces are not allowed in URLs. We have to convert them to something.
2. %20 and + are both valid for replacement of spaces.

Since you're using private sites, please send me a private message with the URL of page containing the links you're having trouble with so I can take a closer look. Do you find this valuable?    
PCThaiICT
PCThaiICT
4. RE: Spaces in links
Jan 17 2008, 2:10 PM EST | Post edited: Jan 17 2008, 2:10 PM EST
Sorry; after the first reply, I stopped looking at the problem until the release notes came today.

We recently made one site open to public view. You can see where one of our contributors ran into this problem at http://pcthailand.wetpaint.com/page/Teaching+English+Fun+Activities

Bless her heart for making it this easy: she made the link text the same as the link that she put into the wetpaint WYSIWYG, but you can see now that the %20 (which I would be totally fine with) got replaced with a + (which our file host doesn't accept). Do you find this valuable?