Perhaps I might have figured out what is going on, just someone a bit more knowledgeable about the table structures to double check me. page table page_title set to varchar with a collation of UFT-8 on other wikis page table page_title set to varbinary(255) Storing the %3F as a ?, could that be the problem because ascii not uft-8 recognizes %3F This wiki is much older and has been upgraded from original 1.14 to 1.15, then 1.17, then 1.19. I ran the upgrade script after each upgrade. Thanks Tom

Hallo, Tom, Du meintest am 08.01.13: What about "utf-8"? Viele Gruesse! Helmut

UTF-8 is what I meant. Being a little dyslexic today. Not making myself clear. Trying again. %3F is a special encoding specific to URL encoding and decoding. ascii nor UTF-8 should matter, it is a hexadecimal value and reserved, % escapes and the 3F is the value for aquestion mark. What I am trying to figure out is: does varbinary storage of the page title mean the title is passed differently than varchar in utf-8. Looking at the value in the table I see a ? not the %3F. This host is a major pain in the you know .... They have such wacky configurationswith their servers. Maybe they have uri encoding/decoding off in eginx? No idea what the heck they are doing there. If I request: mywiki.org/wiki/What_is_the_tallest_building_in_the_world%3F_Hint_not_in_NY The page displays What is the tallest building in the world The '? Hint and not in NY' are not in the page title at the top. No ?, no trailing words...theRead|Edit|View History|\/ tabs are all missing, just the Page and Discussion tabs exist. If I create a page with mywiki.org/wiki/What_is_the_tallest_building_in_the_world%3F_Hint_not_in_NY Everything appears normal until I go to view it and back to: What is the tallest building in the world, no ? or trailing text. Thanks Tom

Thanks but ? Is a safe character and not in the list of unsafe. Wikipedia uses them just fine. Thinking it is Nginx and the host config Tom Sent from my iPhone On Jan 8, 2013, at 5:44 PM, Bri <dev(a)rlyehable.com> wrote: