[Wikia-l] Email notifications are not getting "e acute" correct in the links

[Bjørnar]

Hi,

>> Recent messages have included things like this, where the page I reach ends
>> not in the required "té" but in "tÃ(c)"
>
>> http://fr.wikia.com/wiki/Discuter:Brouillon:Communaut%C3%A9
>
> If I copy and paste that link, it works. Oddly, clicking it does not.
> I just tried this with another page on the same wiki, and with a
> non-wikia wiki and it worked fine.

I'm no expert in this field, but if I'm not mistaken:

"%C3%A9" is the UTF-8 representation of "é" (one character), but it's
interpreted latin1 (ISO-8859-1) instead (or it might be some other
encoding, although latin1 fits with the symbols you get), which means
it's interpreted as two separate characters, namely %C3 and %A9 which
represents à and (c) in latin1, respectively, and thereby sends you to
the wrong URL. The link you sent ends with %C3%83%C2%A9 - which is the
UTF-8 representation of Ã(c) (although the text is %C3%A9 - which
would be why it works when you copy it but not when you click it).

Basically, it's a decoding issue, although where the error lies is
hard to know, especially without the complete email with the headers
etc.

-- 
Bjørnar
http://www.bjornars.net