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Firefox automatically inserts the sequence %E2%80%9D at the beginning and end of every hyperlink I enter in my blog, generating “Page not found” messages for the readers.

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rjafer
rjafer

I publish a French-language blog hosted by canalblog.com. For the last few months, I keep finding a weird sequence in every link I put in:

%E2%80%9D

This appears at the very beginning and end of every hyperlink, (immediately after the opening quote mark and before the closing quote mark). I have determined that it is inserted automatically by Firefox when I leave the HTML mode, either to save my post or to preview it. Unless I remove the sequence manually, a “Page not found” error appears for anyone who clicks on my links.

I have also determined that the bug does not appear if I enter my posts through Safari.

I’m getting a little sick of re-editing every post to delete those sequences after the fact. Can someone do something about it?

I publish a French-language blog hosted by canalblog.com. For the last few months, I keep finding a weird sequence in every link I put in: %E2%80%9D This appears at the very beginning and end of every hyperlink, (immediately after the opening quote mark and before the closing quote mark). I have determined that it is inserted automatically by Firefox when I leave the HTML mode, either to save my post or to preview it. Unless I remove the sequence manually, a “Page not found” error appears for anyone who clicks on my links. I have also determined that the bug does not appear if I enter my posts through Safari. I’m getting a little sick of re-editing every post to delete those sequences after the fact. Can someone do something about it?

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%E2%80%9D is the Unicode representation of a double closing quote: ” (”)
You get this code via encodeURI() or encodeURIComponent() of a link with that character.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark

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cor-el
cor-el
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Chosen Solution

%E2%80%9D is the Unicode representation of a double closing quote: ” (”)
You get this code via encodeURI() or encodeURIComponent() of a link with that character.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark

rjafer
rjafer Question owner

So all I have to do is leave out the quotation marks, letting Firefox insert them on its own? I tried it and it works. Thanks a million my friend.

cor-el
cor-el
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You're welcome.