Mailing List Archive: garbled URL

I was trying today to sort out the [[Swedish monarchs]], when I
stumbled on this page:
http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Bgustav/bus+Adolphus+of+Sweden

It looks like this URL is the result of a bug during the conversion.
Perhaps this is interesting evidence for Magnus? (BTW, we have a few
old kings of Sweden named Magnus...)

There is a king of Sweden who's name is sometimes spelled Gustavus
Adolphus, but sometimes Gustav Adolf. It seems this URL is the result
of someone trying to link to [[<b>Gustav</b>us Adolphus of Sweden]],
but this is just my guess.

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Lars Aronsson (lars@aronsson.se)
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On dim, 2002-02-10 at 22:02, Lars Aronsson wrote:
> I was trying today to sort out the [[Swedish monarchs]], when I
> stumbled on this page:
> http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Bgustav/bus+Adolphus+of+Sweden
>
> It looks like this URL is the result of a bug during the conversion.
> Perhaps this is interesting evidence for Magnus? (BTW, we have a few
> old kings of Sweden named Magnus...)
>
> There is a king of Sweden who's name is sometimes spelled Gustavus
> Adolphus, but sometimes Gustav Adolf. It seems this URL is the result
> of someone trying to link to [[<b>Gustav</b>us Adolphus of Sweden]],
> but this is just my guess.

We have traced this to a bug in the search page, where it puts bold tags
inside the links before they're converted to HTML. If someone clicks one
of those links, they end up creating a bad page title.

I've checked a patch into CVS to fix it.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)