Hi.

I tried to make a link to a Wikipedia page clickable with the usual [ url ] [ / url ] method, with no spaces offcourse. It seems webpage adresses that contain parantheses (or brackets, if you will) can't be made "clickable" in this manner. Not doing anything wrong here, right? The link underneath isn't showing up as I'd expect it to (yeah yeah, not an important link as such - but many Wikipedia pages and other webpages contains parantheses)...

[url]en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twist_(confectionery)[/url]

Is there or will there possibly ever be any workaround?

Thanks in advance for any help or attempt at helping out, or thanks in advance for ignoring me, whichever turns out to hold true.

According to the RFC that defines how URIs are constructed, parentheses are reserved characters. So they have to be url-encoded.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent-encoding

Use %28 for "(" and %29 for ")" and your link should work.

test test test

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twist_(confectionery)

[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twist_%28confectionery%29] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twist_(confectionery)[/url]


That is interesting. Learned something new.

Works here!

Ah, suspected it was one of those strange "reserved characters" issues (though I didn't know the technical name for it) - thanks! Now, if I can only remember to always use %28 and %29 in those cases.. Hopefully some of that Percent-encoding article will attach itself to one of the teflon-free areas of my brain even though it's still a slightly alien world to me...

No need to remember binary codes. Google "url encoding" and you'll find plenty of paste-and-click conversion pages.

I would suggest sending me a bag of Twist as payment for this revelation, except 1) with shipping costs and all that would be an awfully expensive way to get candy, and 2) you'd have found it eventually anyway. So I won't. I will wish we had those here though. Lucky Scandinavians.

Mind you, these are occasionally cause of controversy. As pieces are exchanged for others public outcries and the occasional Facebook campaign are known to happen, and fighting for your favourite piece when sharing a bag has almost become a sport in it's own (and lately poked fun at in the commercials). I remember I dared not touch my fathers favorite pice as a kid, those where to be saved until he was back at the table if he was away for a while..

I think it's national candy # 1, along with "Kvikklunsj" (litteraly quicklunch, as you may have suspected...), chocolate coated waferstripes that are mandotoray for many when skiing and for easterholidays.. Also mandatory for grandparents cupboards when young grandchildren etc come to wisit. I personally stay away from those as I've eventually found out staying away from wheat generally makes my stomach ache less and there's less, well, gas...