https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26766

MZMcBride <[email protected]> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|RESOLVED                    |REOPENED
                 CC|                            |[email protected]
         Resolution|WONTFIX                     |

--- Comment #2 from MZMcBride <[email protected]> 2011-01-22 05:57:09 UTC ---
It should be possible to catch this gracefully, in theory at least.

All searches go through "Special:Search", even searches using the "Go" button.
In Monobook, this was done using a &go=Go parameter, e.g.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=|&go=Go>.
Vector seems to do this a little bit differently (omitting the &go=Go
parameter), but the general idea is still the same.

"#" is an illegal character in MediaWiki page titles. "|" is also an illegal
character in MediaWiki page titles, but it can be caught gracefully. Other
sites, such as Google, can gracefully catch "#", e.g.
<http://www.google.com/search?q=%23>.

I don't know of any technical reason "#" can't be caught gracefully when it's
input into the search field directly. It may require special-casing in
includes/specials/SpecialSearch.php, but there isn't anything impossibile here
(that I'm aware of) that requires a "wontfix" resolution.

Re-opening this for now.

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