ASK A QUESTION Spaces in urls don't work right

3 Vote
webdunce

When trying to make an embedded link, if the url has spaces in it, it will not work right -- even if one uses the &20 symbol in place of the space characters.

[deals with][1].

I tried the above in this thread.

[1]: http://www.spanishdict.com/translate/deal with

8 Answers

2 Vote
qfreed

The "quick fix" is to go to the TinyURL site and convert the URL with spaces to one that does not have spaces.

TinyURL's links do not expire.

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  • Yes. Thanks for adding to this solution to this thread. It works for image URLs, too. - webdunce Jul 14, 2011 flag
  • Just updating the thread. - qfreed Jul 14, 2011 flag
  • tinyurl.com works great, I've had success with it several times here fixing pictures. - amykay Jul 14, 2011 flag
4 Vote
Carlos-F

It works, but with a little trick. Please, look at this link: Deal with.

All you need is to replace every space with the character code & # 32 ;

grin

  • Hmmm... No entiendo. ¿Cuál caracters? "& 3 2 ; # ;"? - chaparrito Jan 21, 2010 flag
  • Chaparrito, replace in the URL the space after "...deal with" for "...deal & # 32 ;with".. - Carlos-F Jan 21, 2010 flag
  • Bingo! OK so anywhere there is a space between words, replace it with the following five characters betwenn the > and < *without spaces* >& # 32 ;< Okay! Thanks! - chaparrito Feb 10, 2010 flag
  • Great response!! - Izanoni1 Jul 14, 2011 flag
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Paralee

Okay, gang. Unfortunately, we will just have to live with it the way it is for now. There is no quick fix to the problem, so you might have to wait until we hire our genius programming interns this summer. I apologize for the inconvenience but with me knowing nothing about programming and Chris doing boss type stuff, this is something that will have to wait a bit.

Remind me in the summer if it hasn't been fixed and I'll make sure to bring it up again.

2 Vote
Paralee

I see. I thought you were all crazy because I put the link in my post and it worked just fine from the grey preview box below where I type my answer. But when you submit the answer, it strips out the "% 20" for some reason. (It even erases it if you put the two together!)

I will forward this to our programmer and see what he thinks. This is odd and very important since we will be implementing the phrase book soon which will have multiple worded entries.

  • Yep. I know how you feel. I thought webdunce just didn't realize how simple it was... ;-) - chaparrito Jan 21, 2010 flag
  • Heh, heh. - webdunce Jan 24, 2010 flag
0 Vote
Heidita

Yes, interesting, though easy to solve. Just copy and paste the link. I tried to delete the space, but then the link is not recognized.

0 Vote
lorenzo9

Odd, but understandable.

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chaparrito

[deal with](http://www.spanishdict.com/translate/deal with)

Try that one.

  • nope. - chaparrito Jan 21, 2010 flag
  • I tried typing for space. But after posting the answer, this was stripped out of the url. Hmmm... - chaparrito Jan 21, 2010 flag
  • OK. That's weird. It stripped it out of my comment also. " " - chaparrito Jan 21, 2010 flag
  • I'm trying to type "% 2 0" without spaces... - chaparrito Jan 21, 2010 flag
  • How the site deals with the % 2 0 may be *part* of the problem. I definitely see the challenge for whoever maintains the site, but I also believe it can be fixed (being a dabbler of programming myself). - webdunce Jan 21, 2010 flag
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chaparrito

Deal with

Chaparrito, please try this:

[Deal with][1]

[1]: http://www.spanishdict.com/translate/deal with

  • Yep. That did it. It will work, but it will also make editing a post tricky. As you notice, Carlos, mine now works, but your's does not. It did before I edited the post, and even though I did not touch it, the link broke. - chaparrito Jan 21, 2010 flag

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