The URL paster should parse %20s as spaces

Feedback · The URL paster should parse %20s as spaces (accepted)

If I dump this URL into chat...

http://litphoria.com/profiles/search/find%20profiles%20part%20of%20the%20kill%20la%20kill%20universe

... it autoparses into this link text, which is a hell of a mouthful to read when I send this message:

find%20profiles%20part%20of%20the%20kill%20la%20kill%20universe (litphoria.com)

or this code, if it helps make things clear, will be sitting in my message now:

[find%20profiles%20part%20of%20the%20kill%20la%20kill%20universe (litphoria.com)](http://litphoria.com/profiles/search/find%20profiles%20part%20of%20the%20kill%20la%20kill%20universe)

Instead that URL paster thing should just parse %20s as spaces (just like how it parses dashes as spaces) so that what I paste turns into this:

find profiles part of the kill la kill universe (litphoria.com)

or this code should be sitting in my message ready to send:

[find profiles part of the kill la kill universe (litphoria.com)](http://litphoria.com/profiles/search/find%20profiles%20part%20of%20the%20kill%20la%20kill%20universe)

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created: 28 July 15 at 11:23 AM (build: 7/17/2015 2:30 AM beta)

Wrecked Avent Site Administrator

Kind of. This will only work in very modern browsers, and those browsers will just replace %20 with a space in the url anyway.

Velus

When you copy the URL though, it gives you a %20'd version. If I head to the KLK Canon in Firefox or Chrome latest, and copy the "find profiles part of this" link (via the context menu, or via clicking it and copying the URL bar) I get a %20'd URL.

Roel

You know, I am pretty sure the idea is for the link's text that we see to be parsed nicely. So not exactly like the second example, and instead like this:

find profiles part of the kill la kill universe (litphoria.com)

So it looks much nicer. The actual link has %20's, but the string automatically pulled from the link could have every instance of %20 replaced with a space just to make what user's clearly see look nicer. I don't think anybody cares how ugly the "hidden" part is.

Satsuki Kiryuuin

That is what I meant, yeah! It's just about the text that gets generated, not the URL being linked to! Maybe this revision's clearer.

Wrecked Avent Site Administrator

Oh! Yeah, we can totally make the auto-linker kill the %20s.

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