Re:Try and view the source
by adamkhrona on Monday March 19, 2012 @01:38AM
(#3722529)
Just to add to this, the "special characters" are "%E2%80%AE" which is the escaped form of the UTF-8 "Right-To-Left Override" control character (which effectively reverses the display of text).
If you try copying the URL to plain-text, you'll see: http://www.kurlak.com/john/%E2%80%AElmth.ecruos
Re:Try and view the source
by sixcorners on Monday March 19, 2012 @05:57AM
(#3723159)
Why is this possible? Is there a way to surpress this weirdness? I want to be able to trust my address bar again.
I believe that RTL character is one of the main failures of UNICODE. This should be part of the markup / rich text, not part of the plain text.
Even without the RTL directive, they might have used something like sourcе.html — which contains a non-ASCII glyph. So while RTL is problematic, I'm not prepared to call it a failure in that generally problematic space of unifying human communication.
You can also reproduce the behavior by navigating back, then forwards again - you'll see the "not that easily" page that way, as well (as the "try and view the source" page has been replaced in your history list).