On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 5:06 PM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
> Why does ":" get rendered %3A here? It looks so ugly. Can't anything
> be done?
>
> Testing http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Allpages
> It their URL bars, Firefox, and emacs-w3m show
>          http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:所有页面
> OK, but then hitting the [提交] (Go) button gives:
> Firefox:  
> http://zh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3A所有页面&from=&to=&namespace=0
> emacs-w3m 
> http://zh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:所有页面&from=&to=&namespace=0
>
> The weird thing is one can do
> $ firefox 
> http://zh.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:所有页面&from=&to=&namespace=0
> and the colon stays put.

This has nothing to do with MediaWiki.  Go complain to the Firefox
and/or Emacs developers.  We can only output the colons in our HTML,
we can't control what browsers do after that.

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