Steve Wyles wrote:
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.
I can reach Wikipedia URLs that default to %26 by substituting & and in
fact was encouraged to use the & URL in a mod.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mamas_%26_the_Papas
becomes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mamas_&_the_Papas.
Both are reachable. Hence, my confusion.
Paula (spacefish)
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