A trick that will work in some applications [maybe not yours] is to
place a left arrow in front of the URL and a right arrow at the end no
spaces]. That prevents some programs from screwing it up.
Luck,
James
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Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:27:39 -0700
From: User<u...@user.com>
To:support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org
Subject: Re: SM 2.0 URL escape character auto conversion
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NoOp wrote:
> On 10/30/2009 06:01 PM, User wrote:
>> I recently copied a URL which contained spaces, from the URL field of the
SM 2.0
>> browser, into a SM 2.0 mail composition window, and then saved the e-mail
as a
>> draft. Upon reviewing the saved draft (without re-opening it for editing), I
>> noticed that clickable portion of the URL with spaces that I pasted into the
>> e-mail was truncated at the first space character encountered. Obviously,
this
>> is not surprising.
>>
>> However, I seem to recall that in SM 1.X versions, when pasting a URL with
>> spaces or other special characters into the SM mail composition window, an
>> automatic conversation process would take place whereby the pasted URL in
the
>> mail composition would then contain the necessary escape characters (e.g.
for
>> the space character, it would become %20 in the e-mail).
>>
>> Can someone confirm whether the automatic escape character conversion DOES
>> INDEED take place in SM 1.X versions but now does NOT take place in SM 2.0's
>> mail composition window or when the e-mail is saved / sent? In this case, I
had
>> to re-edit the saved draft to manually replace the space characters in the
>> pasted URL into their correct escape character equivalents. Thanks for any
input
>> / confirmation on the above.
>
> Sure, here is an easy, reliable example[1]:
>
> SM 2.0:
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community
> click on #5 in 'Contents: Getting to know and work with your system
> You'll see that in SM2.0 the URL ends up as:
> <https://help.ubuntu.com/community#Getting to know and work with your
> system>
>
> In 1.1.18 the same URL ends up as:
>
<https://help.ubuntu.com/community#Getting%20to%20know%20and%20work%20with%20your%20system>
>
> [1] Sorry for not finding an mozilla example, but this is one that I
> know from heart:-)
>
>
Thanks for confirming that. I wasn't sure from using SM 1.X all these years, but
I did remember that I have NEVER had to manually insert escape characters when
pasting ANY URL into the mail composition window. I guess this is yet another
item on the to-do list for Seamonkey developers.
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