Paula Callesøe wrote: > Hello, > > A discussion started on > http://musicbrainz.org/showmod.html?modid=4161538 has prompted me to > bring this up here on the list because we may need some guidelines > written for the use of % in URL ARs. OpenDataRelationshipClass > currently has nothing regarding the use of any special characters in > URLs. > > By default, Wikipedia URLs use %28 and %29 to represent ( and ) and > %26 for &. No one other than a power-user will know that Wikipedia > URLs can be converted to one without % using the character the %nn > represents. For example, for the band Cameo, Wikipedia defaults to > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameo_%28band%29 > > but we can use > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameo_(band) > > to reach the same information. Note that in MB's interface, the last ) > is not dropped as it is here in this email so it's perfectly usable. > > wrong, you provided the proof for this. Click on the links in your mail app and you will see that the last link will not work correctly - the last char will not recognized as part of the URL.
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