Blogroll link not working because of apostrophe in address

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  ylb1 · Member · Mar 26, 2008 at 12:38 pm

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  I want to put a blogroll link in to this site: http://www.urbanhonking.com/we’/ but the link does not work as the apostrophe is not recognised.

  Is there any way that I can include the apostrophe in the address?

  Thanks

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  isadora · Member · Mar 26, 2008 at 5:42 pm

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  Type the link as follows:
  http://www.urbanhonking.com/we'/
  and save. It works, but actually imho it’s a shame for movable type to allow such characters in urls.

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  ylb1 · Member · Mar 27, 2008 at 8:16 am

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  Thanks for reply.

  Have tried both copying and pasting the link, and typing it as you typed it but it’s still not working. Is it because you have used a different font, maybe?

  Or is it because there’s something else I’m missing?

  Thanks again.

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  isadora · Member · Mar 27, 2008 at 10:02 am

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  Sorry, I didn’t notice that the html entity was translated :-(
  Use the #39 entity for apostrophe as displayed in this table: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_entities.asp (I don’t type it here, since it gets translated…).

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  ylb1 · Member · Mar 27, 2008 at 1:50 pm

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  Really sorry about this, but it’s still not working.

  I’ve typed the link as:

  http://www.urbanhonking.com/we#39/

  is that right?

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  rosclarke · Member · Mar 27, 2008 at 1:55 pm

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  No. You need a & before the #39 and a ; afterwards, exactly as in the table isadora linked you to.

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  isadora · Member · Mar 27, 2008 at 5:44 pm

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  Thanks, rosclarke. Exactly.

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  ylb1 · Member · Mar 29, 2008 at 12:11 pm

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  Thanks, got there.

  Very stupid of me.