Forums Bug Reports Bug if URL in channel is double-clicked..

If somebody posts an URL that looks like this

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_(Internet)

and you double-click it in a channel, mIRC 6.03 will try to open it in a browser but unfortunately drops the last char of it, so the browser tries to get

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_(Internet

without trailing ) which won't work of course...

Thats not really a bug imo. It's for things like

(http://www.somesite.com)
Where you do want mIRC to ignore the ). But anyway, both ( and ) are illegal characters in a URL. you should encode them.

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_%28Internet%29

Then it should work.

Personally I think mirc should only drop characters like ) if it begins with that character in the first place

http://www.somesite.com -- http://www.somesite.com
(http://www.somesite.com) -- http://www.somesite.com
http://www.somesite.com) -- http://www.somesite.com)

I think people should name folders and files as per the normal standard. For the life of me I can't think of why it's necessary to include parentheses in a URL.

But then that still doesn't fully solve it:

(*)http://www.test.com(*)
Is the (*) part of the url, or is it just for decoration? To a person, you would likely assume it is decoration, but developing computer code to handle all the various situations would be rather difficult. And considering that code triggers every single time you move the mouse, you want the code to be as fast and simple as possible.