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Re:What can’t the internet handle in 2022? Apostrophes by mc32 on Monday October 03, 2022 @10:45PM (#33076223)
I just want a single contiguous space character so I don't have to suppress the space or substitute with an alternate character --also URL boxes can make it conspicuously obvious for better UI. And while they're at it, allow & (ampersand).
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Re:What can’t the internet handle in 2022? Apostrophes by andrewxhonson on Monday October 03, 2022 @11:47PM (#33076527)
Maybe the location bar should accept the space but strip it? That would work for input if not reading the URL. Maybe only allowing single consecutive spaces to avoid the address spoofing example. I could go for that.

I would love & natively though. For my wedding (bride&groom.com for example) I looked into faking it with punycode but nothing was close enough, and anything other than an ampersand would have been too hard to input.

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