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:If the article name was "Patrick_Connick%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B", then how come no results show up when I enter it into the search bar? --[[User:Liberaltears|Liberaltears]]^{'''''[[User talk:Liberaltears|Your reminder that Biden committed quid pro joe]]'''''} 17:02, 15 April 2020 (EDT)

:If the article name was "Patrick_Connick%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B", then how come no results show up when I enter it into the search bar? --[[User:Liberaltears|Liberaltears]]^{'''''[[User talk:Liberaltears|Your reminder that Biden committed quid pro joe]]'''''} 17:02, 15 April 2020 (EDT)

::Technically, the article name contains the special characters themselves, not the encoded version of them. These are not [https://perishablepress.com/url-character-codes/ common special characters] I can look up easily, but I assume they are blank characters. So if you use a [https://www.url-encode-decode.com/ URI decoder], the decoded output of "Patrick_Connick%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B" will appear to be simply "Patrick_Connick". However, if you copy the output from that decoding into the CP search box, it will take you to the article bad name (which is now a redirect to the correct one). These characters are invisible, and the only way we can see them in this case is when they are encoded into the URL. If you want to find the page with this bad name, you need to search for the article name with those actual special characters after it, since the wiki software does not do URI encoding. I was trying to keep it simple, though, which is why I generalized by saying that the page name is "Patrick_Connick%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B" --[[User:DavidB4|<font color="ForestGreen">DavidB4</font>]] ^{([[User talk:DavidB4|TALK]])} 18:18, 15 April 2020 (EDT)

::Technically, the article name contains the special characters themselves, not the encoded version of them. These are not [https://perishablepress.com/url-character-codes/ common special characters] I can look up easily, but I assume they are blank characters. So if you use a [https://www.url-encode-decode.com/ URI decoder], the decoded output of "Patrick_Connick%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B" will appear to be simply "Patrick_Connick". However, if you copy the output from that decoding into the CP search box, it will take you to the bad article name (which is now a redirect to the correct one). These characters are invisible, and the only way we can see them in this case is when they are encoded into the URL. If you want to find the page with this bad name, you need to search for the article name with those actual special characters after it, since the wiki software does not do URI encoding. I was trying to keep it simple, though, which is why I generalized by saying that the page name is "Patrick_Connick%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B" --[[User:DavidB4|<font color="ForestGreen">DavidB4</font>]] ^{([[User talk:DavidB4|TALK]])} 18:18, 15 April 2020 (EDT)

:::Okay, thank you DavidB4! Unfortunately, I'm not an expert on the topic and the way such works, but your explanation does kind of help explain it. --[[User:Liberaltears|Liberaltears]]^{'''''[[User talk:Liberaltears|Your reminder that Biden committed quid pro joe]]'''''} 18:25, 15 April 2020 (EDT)

:::Okay, thank you DavidB4! Unfortunately, I'm not an expert on the topic and the way such works, but your explanation does kind of help explain it. --[[User:Liberaltears|Liberaltears]]^{'''''[[User talk:Liberaltears|Your reminder that Biden committed quid pro joe]]'''''} 18:25, 15 April 2020 (EDT)