On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, 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.
Unfortunately though, this conversion cannot be done with Discogs URLs.
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Emerson,+Lake+%26+Palmer
is unreachable using
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Emerson,+Lake+&+Palmer.
Some characters in URL's like '&' have to be % encoded, I'll dig out the
RFC if I get a chance later today. '(' and ')' are safe from what I
remember.
Steve (inhouseuk)
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