Bug – Title of Post Causes The Permalink To 404

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  Caspan · Member · Aug 9, 2011 at 5:37 pm

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  I think I have found a bug. I am using the latest version of WP for my website. When I create a title of a post as follows “RSHTOTF! – Mute BBM Groups – UPDATED!” as you can see some how I have 2 different dashes in there, one is a short dash, one is a long dash. This is just cosmetic normally but the real problem is that when WP creates a permalink to “http://domain.com/rshtotf-–-mute-bbm-groups/” this causes a 404. After doing some testing I found out that the long dash was the issue. As soon as I remove that from the title and recreate the permalink the link works perfect. I can understand the reason this cannot exist in the URL, but when I create the post title which the permalink is created from WP should remove it just like it does to other typical special characters, correct? For example if I add !@#$%^&*() or any other special chr to the end of my title it does not get put in the permalink but this long dash does. Just wondering what other peoples results are. I have pasted them below so others can test.

  Long Dash –
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  Caspan · Member · Aug 9, 2011 at 5:46 pm

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  I have moved this post to WordPress.org (Obviously I didn’t know the difference!) But I would check the same does not happen here as well!