Bug Issue with redirect when using % mark in thread title

[SemiWiki]

Hey guys we had a recent issue on Semiwiki, basically we create articles and threads for some content.

The CMS articles were fine however if you made a new thread with the same title:
INTC 3Q Profit Jumps 34% despite flat PC sales; what's working in its favor?

^ The forum thread was not viewable, you could click the link in the sidebar blocks and it would reload the page with the correct url up top but cause a redirect issue and the page would not load.

This is the format of how the url was (when messed up):
https://www.semiwiki.com/forum/f302...t-pc-sales;-whats-working-its-favor-9824.html

The percentage in the url would not allow it to parse properly and/or redirect in a bad way.

I was able to bypass this by adding in a custom character filter;
"Custom Character Filter
This setting lets you filter custom characters from the SEO URLs."

Using:

% => p
% => p

^ Bottom one is actually & # 3 7; => p (without the spaces, dbseo on this site here is replacing lol)

Now the thread loads fine under this url:
SemiWiki.com

The % not being in the url allows it to load properly, the title still uses a % which is nice but my issue is the fact I want the % mark to show in the actual url, I want the url to be: https://www.semiwiki.com/forum/f302...t-pc-sales;-whats-working-its-favor-9824.html

How can I achieve this or what change to DBSEO can I make to make this happen? Thanks!

 

[Fillip H.]

Change the Non-Latin Characters setting to Remove or Replace. Keep is only intended for UTF-8 forums.

 

[SemiWiki]

Neither worked, I tried replace first and redirect issue happened. I then tried remove and it did the same thing again:

https://www.semiwiki.com/forum/f302...t-pc-sales;-whats-working-its-favor-9824.html

Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.

This problem can sometimes be caused by disabling or refusing to accept cookies.

I left it set as remove for now, so you can click the link above to view for yourself if needed.

 

[Fillip H.]

Changing the setting would not make existing URLs with % work, such as the one you pasted here. Scrolling further down on Where investors and semiconductor professionals interact shows new URLs that have % in the title do not have % in the SEO'd URL.

For the record, the reason why this is happening is that % is a URL Encode character. We cannot strip it automatically, as that would prevent certain UTF-8 language/charset combinations from working.

 

[SemiWiki]

AHHHHH I C, I C now (thanks for the quick explanation at the end).

Okay so based on your reply, I've retained the custom character filter to replace the % mark (for old threads it was already used in) and set it to replace non-latin characters.

Thanks again for the explanation, feel free to close this ticket .

 

[DragonByte Technologies]

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