Links with special characters are ignored
ressa - November 9, 2009 - 08:30
| Project: | External Links |
| Version: | 6.x-1.8 |
| Component: | Code |
| Category: | bug report |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | active |
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Description
They don't get picked up the module -- try for example http://sandlådan.nu
#1
Hm, http://sandlådan.nu, is not a valid URL, so I'm not understanding why it should work.
#2
This really is a valid domain name, welcome to world of IDN (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name)
FYI, core issues on this subject: http://drupal.org/project/issues/search/drupal?issue_tags=IDN
#3
Ah, I wasn't aware that those domains had actually come into practical usage yet. Oddly I don't think that Extlink actually is dependent on the characters in the URL at all. It does some basic matching on the top-level domain name itself ("nu" in your example), but it doesn't care at all what's in the rest of the name.
Doing a practical test, I can't actually reproduce a problem. I've entered this into the body area of a post:
<a href="http://sandlådan.nu">http://sandlådan.nu</a>And it shows up appropriately on output with the extlink class and icon. Note that it's not this module's fault that just "http://sandlådan.nu" is not automatically converted to a URL, that's the core URL Filter that's not picking it up.
#4
Thanks for the answers, I am glad to see that people are working on the case in core.