[Mediawiki-l] A very short url and the ampersand

[Vernon Thommeret]

Hi,

I'm using the very short url method (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ 
Using_a_very_short_URL) and, overall, it seems to work. However, any  
article that uses an ampersand doesn't work. E.g., for an article  
like "First & Last Tavern", MediaWiki interprets it as "First ". The  
link shows up as:

http://. . ./First_%26_Last_Tavern

With Wikipedia, it interprets ampersands correctly, and it doesn't  
change to %26 in the url. I tested another wiki, which I think uses  
the same method and it also has the problem of the truncating  
ampersand, but it doesn't convert the & to %26. Hrm. How can I fix  
this problem?

Thanks!

Vernon