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Can't post link to website with URL address containing unicode characters [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Non-ASCII characters in external links Consider the following URL: http://www.erfolg-für-alle.de (posted to SO short time ago) Apart of the automatic URL detection breaking ...
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The hyperlink button doesn't work when the URL contains encoded characters [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Non-ASCII characters in external links I tried using the URL shortcut in the bar to enter a URL, http://michaelis.uol.com.br/moderno/ingles/index.php?lingua=portugues-ingles&...
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Link generator can't handle non-ASCII characters [duplicate]

Examples: http://ideas.lang-learn.org/Images/yalnızlarım.png The first time the link ended with "yaln" The second time it ended with "Images/" [link](http://ideas.lang-learn.org/Images/yalnızlarım....
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Internationalized domain name silently dropped

If you try to enter a internationalized domain name as your "website" in your profile, it will be silently stripped of any non-English characters. Ex: My webiste is http://linus.unnebäck.se/ but when ...
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Links with double quotes or quotation marks don't work [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Links with quotation marks are broken Hi, I tried posting this link http://books.google.com/books?id=XWu70Oqz6RIC&pg=PA344&lpg=PA344&dq=wpf+"sharing+resources+...
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Auto escape URL when entering with hyperlink button (Ctrl+L)

Whenever the following characters appear in an URL in a link of the form [foo][1] … [1]: http://..., the server won't parse it as URL: ^, {, }, \ and the following won't work in preview: $, ^, *, ...
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URL containing closing parentheses are trunked in comments (javadoc idiom)

Hi, here is an example : http://google-collections.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/javadoc/com/google/common/collect/MapMaker.html#expiration(long,%20java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit) see comment.
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The Markdown editor chokes on $ characters in URLs

In this question, I had an issue with the Markdown formatting being corrupted by a $ sign in the URL. The fix was to escape the $ sign as %24. There is seemingly no reason for this, as the $ sign is ...
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Emoji in URL breaks "insert hyperlink" tool in editor

I just happened to notice that entering a URL that contains emoji or other non-BMP Unicode characters into the "Insert Hyperlink" dialog in the SE Markdown editor will fail with an uncaught URIError. ...
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Possible Link Bug

I'm referring to this post. When editing, the link appears properly in the preview. However, the question shows something like: (i.e. using http://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1GGLS%5Fen-...
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Link parser chokes on URL

I recently posted an answer on stackoverflow that rendered perfectly in the editor preview, but in the posted text the links all got gobbled up: links were stretching across multiple lines where they ...
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Eternal bugs due to closing [closed]

A long introduction There's quite a new bug report about using URLs with Unicode characters, which was closed as exact duplicate of an old one. But the old one was marked as bydesign (sort of closed) ...
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Consistent Handling of Illegal URLs

As expressed in relevant answers here on meta (questions 6808 and 11581) there are URLs which are illegal to use in questions and answers. The system should be enhanced to address those URLs in two ...
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Links with URLS containing http:// more than once [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Possible Link Bug Sometimes I use the Wayback Machine to link to really good websites that no longer exist. The URLs are of the form http://web.archive.org/web/〈date|*〉/〈url〉, ...
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