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Warning about parentheses in titles when linking to old threads

<not about figs -- rather about posting links in threads>

Hi all... a brief warning that it might be wise to avoid parentheses in the Topic subject (thread title).  I discovered this morning that providing a link to threads with parentheses gets messed up.  (At least using Google Chrome and creating the link in the ways I've done it on this forum, the link address gets truncated at the left paren).  I know that there's a way to deal with this in HTML, but unless you can directly edit the HTML source, the site doesn't seem to give you an easy way to link to threads that have parens in them.  (There may be an easy way, but I didn't find it... I've got ideas, but it was much easier to just go edit the target thread title to remove the parens :-)

Mike

certain escape/reserved characters will cause funny issues with url. run into this issue occasionally at work, but never really thought about it here.. lol

I've noticed this as well. Went back and edited/removed the parenthesis from an old thread title I had started for this very reason.

There are a lot of good old threads here - it would be a shame to not be able to easily link to them all because of a technicality.

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