Posting Threads with Special Characters in the Title Line

[Dangerousdave26]

I am going to ask that all members stop posting threads with special characters in the title line.

IE11 can't seem to handle it. It gives the member a web page that states to contact the administrator that the post can not be found.

Here are a couple of examples.

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforum...aint-%28IAF%29

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforum...erney-for-%A31!

Chrome also has an issue with them but it seems to be intermittent.

I have heard reports that FireFox also has issues but I have never seen it myself.

For Chrome and FireFox its probably only the newer versions that are having the issue.

This is happening quite often and becoming a challenge to fix every time someone posts a thread with special characters.

If you want members to read your posts please format the title line accordingly.

[Dangerousdave26]

As an update

IE11 Chrome and FF all have issues with Special Characters.

There also seems to be s number of characters in the title line that causes the browser to freak out.

A link that is x long may puke in IE but work in FF.

Another link that has the same special characters but more total characters pukes in IE 11 and FF 34.x.

I still say stop using any special characters but I can definitely say

The browser does not like

( ) ! -

Those characters seem to be a major problem with browsers and this version of vBulletin.

I am sure the list of characters will grow