Julius Lester came in with a music caravan. Bob Dylan was there, Pete Seeger, Theodore Bikel. But what they forgot about was that for about 100 miles around, [they] had some of the best traditional music ever. And we didn't have the consciousness then to pull that together, you know, to pull in those living legends of blues men and women who were right there - Worth Long, organizer for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, talking about a movement festival in Greenwood, Mississippi in 1960s
SMF bug I think. Will be fixed in the next release. Or not!
Another analysis would be that the SMF PHP code is regarding it as an illegal URL, having that close parentheses character at the very end, and purposely breaking said assumed URL. In other words it could be interpreting it as an attempted SQL injection attack. Just a wild guess. The HTML code being output looks like this:
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spencer_Williams_(actor" class="bbc_link" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spencer_Williams_(actor</a>) Notice the final bracket is outside the html link construct. Or it could just be a bug. I'll take a look at the php link formatting code when I'm feeling geeky.
« Last Edit: September 22, 2019, 05:39:58 PM by Rivers »
I copied the link into a new message and experimented by placing the ")" in several different locations in the link and checking the "Preview." It didn't seem to matter where it was as it always showed up as a non-link (black) character instead of the brown link character--on my screen, anyway.
Yeah, my guess is that it's probably some bug or conflict. It doesn't matter much in this instance because it gets us close enough in Wiki. But somewhere down the line it just might require the standard "paste link into address bar" work around, or perhaps using TinyURL.
Thanks for taking a look.
« Last Edit: September 22, 2019, 06:05:12 PM by Stuart »
The work around was to convert it using TinyURL. It appears that the problem with ")" appeared and was resolved in 2019 using a different method, but the underlying glitch is still with us.