Is Kinja having a stroke?

"TheHondaBro" (wwaveform) 02/01/2017 at 11:28 • Filed to: None

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Or is it really just stumped by basic punctuation?

jasmits > TheHondaBro 02/01/2017 at 11:30

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It had one a long time ago and never fully recovered

WilliamsSW > TheHondaBro 02/01/2017 at 11:33

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Why can’t it be both?

Wacko > TheHondaBro 02/01/2017 at 11:34

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no it’s a Birth defect

E90M3 > TheHondaBro 02/01/2017 at 11:34

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It’s the HTML code for a single quote aka an apostrophe.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > TheHondaBro 02/01/2017 at 11:34

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It has a malignant growth in its percent-encoding center - it’s pressing on a blood vessel.

Matt Nichelson > TheHondaBro 02/01/2017 at 11:46

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Haha I broke Kinja.

Urambo Tauro > TheHondaBro 02/01/2017 at 11:46

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Huh. I guess it depends on the character: ( link )

Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) > TheHondaBro 02/01/2017 at 12:10

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I didn't ever find out why that happens like that but it's possible it has something to do with the way punctuation characters might be stored?

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) 02/01/2017 at 12:53

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The funny character substitutions are the way that punctuation is modified to fit in a URL. A URL can’t have apostrophes in it. What is supposed to happen is that a website either percent-encodes things for making a link or deletes naughty characters, and just stores a string for the title of the post somewhere. What has happened here is that Kinja is taking the title of a post sometimes randomly and running it through percent-encoding. That... isn’t supposed to happen. Something is *very* wrong for it to be doing that.