On 14 Jul 2007 at 20:10, Andrew Stiller wrote:

> On Jul 14, 2007, at 7:58 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
> 
> > Have you looked at the actual HTML produced to see if the link is
> > there to the picture?
> 
> I did that just now, and the link is there, but oddly the  picture is
> renamed. It's actual name is "Clarke 12%.jpg" but the html has it as
> "Clarke 12%25.jpg". I deleted the "25" and saved, but when I went 
> back into edit mode, the picture was still missing. The oddest  thing
> is that when I then went back into html mode, the 25 had come back.
> 
> Any idea what's  going on?

Non-alphanumeric characters in URLs and links have to be URL-encoded. 
This means that all special characters are replaced with %##. The URL-
encoded version of Clarke 12%.jpg is:

  Clarke%2012%25.jpg

That's because %20 is the space character and %25 is the percent 
sign.

I would remove all spaces and non-alphanumeric symbols from filenames 
that go on a web page. Most browsers handle them correctly these 
days, but it's still not 100%. I posted some files on my web page 
last winter that not all readers of this list could load because of 
just this kind of URL encoding issue.

For URL encoding go here:

http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/dencoder/

That's just one of gazillions of such tools on the Web.

And all of this is an artifact of the origins of the Web in a time 
before Unicode. And it's probably the case that Claris Homepage is 
out of date on that, as it should do this transparently for you or 
not at all.

-- 
David W. Fenton                    http://dfenton.com
David Fenton Associates       http://dfenton.com/DFA/

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