https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28460
Bug #: 28460
Summary: invisible character in url leads to "no article" page
Product: MediaWiki
Version: wikimedia-deployment
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Normal
Component: Redirects
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
Classification: Unclassified
Created attachment 8387
--> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/attachment.cgi?id=8387
example of invisible character in wikipedia url
An example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horsesho%E2%80%8Be_orbit
If this link is pasted into Wikipedia, it fails. The character which is
decoding here as "E2 80 8B" is normally invisible. It appears to be the UTF-8
character "zero width space". Since it has no syntactical value, shouldn't such
characters simply be removed from pasted urls? I don't know how the spurious
character got into the URL in the first place, but surely any invisible
characters ought to be removed by the parser, right?
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