Hi On Sunday 6 September 2009 at 11:32:25 PM, in <mid:[email protected]>, Bill McQuillan wrote:
> Although I do not remember seeing any instances of a > URL enclosed in Parentheses, I have definitely seen it in letters Word documents occasionally:- "Our website (www.example.com) has full details" but that now tends to be "Our website at www.example.com has full details" > I also have not seen any URLs *containing* Parentheses until this > Wikipedia link. TB!'s issue seems to be that the closing bracket is the *final* character of the URL. This is even more unusual. > Now the designers of the URL syntax reserved Angle > Brackets "<>" for enclosing URLs in running text. And > TB seems to be aware of this to a degree. But Joe Public doesn't *sigh* > If I try a URL with embedded Parentheses: > http://example.com/ends-with-(parens) > both the MicroEd and Windows editors do not highlight > the final Parentheses. Confirmed. The HTML editor does, though.. > However if I use the same URL in Angle Brackets: > <http://example.com/ends-with-(parens)> > the final Parenthesis IS included in the Windows editor > but NOT in the MicroEd editor. Confirmed. In the HTML editor, the *closing* angle bracket is also included. If you enclose the URL in brackets, as is claimed in bug 5254 to be common:- (http://example.com/ends-with-(parens)) In MicroEd, the bracket at the beginning and the extra bracket at the end are *not* included. The Bracket that is the last character of the URL *is* included. In Windows Editor, the bracket at the beginning and *both* brackets at the end are included. In HTML editor the one at the beginning is *not* included but *both* at the end *are* included. > It will be interesting to send and receive this message > and see what the various viewers do! Here, both viewers displayed the same. I.e., the final bracket *not* included for both your examples. The angle brackets also did not become part of the URL in either viewer. -- Best regards MFPA Raining cats and dogs is better than hailing taxis. Using The Bat! v4.0.38 on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 ________________________________________________ Current version is 4.2.10.0 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
