+1 for this getting fixed, please! Minor source of confusion, but
probably easy to fix.

Thanks!

Best,
Tom

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 18:20, Rupert Westenthaler
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I recently discovered, that DBpedia unnecessarily encodes '(' and ')'
> in URLs to '%28' and '%29' because both
>  RFC 1738  Uniform Resource Locators (URL)
>  RFC 2396  (URI Generic Syntax) and
> define that "(" and ")" can be normally used within URLs.
>
> For most of the cases requests with the unencoded variant of the URL
> would not return any results
> e.g.
>  http://dbpedia.org/resource/Family_%28biology%29
>  http://dbpedia.org/resource/Family_(biology) -> not found
> Wikipedia allows access with both variants.
>
> In some cases DBpedia provides different information for both variants
> of the URL
> e.g.
>  http://dbpedia.org/page/Republican_Party_%28United_States%29
>  http://dbpedia.org/page/Republican_Party_(United_States)
>
> As far as I can say this affects all URLs that use '(' and ')'
>
> A similar thing is also the case for URLs that include an "#"
> e.g.
>  http://dbpedia.org/resource/Midfielder%23Winger is an own Resource
>  http://dbpedia.org/resource/Midfielder#Winger returns the contents
> for Midfielder
>
> best
> Rupert
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