When pasting a link with special Characters it will add escape characters, crippling the link

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Hello,

I know I could do so much more to adequately tell the right developer exactly what happened to me the last few days/weeks when reading my newspaper and trying to copy links I find interesting to my private forum, to keep track of what I was reading.

All of a sudden I get ERROR 400 from the servers of the Newspapers, that disrupt my reading / posting system.

After cooling down and reproducing the steps needed to get to this point I concluded it has to be a bug in how Discourse parses links pasted to the editor when using Chrome.

This would be a link I want to keep track of just by pasting it in a topic:

https://www.destentor.nl/home/moeilijke-combinatie-hulpverlener-beschermen-en-psychotische-dader-straffen~a9297efa/

When pasting it in my Discourse it pastes this however:

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You see how it adds the backslash here? I think it has something to do with string escaping and parsing the ~ in this case. Please fix your regex :wink:

Sorry, just a user here - can’t edit/upload this code myself yet without breaking stuff so letting you do it.

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You would only ‘see’ the error, after clicking the invalid link and editting the post to see what is being linked ofc.

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Did you try here or on try.discourse.org?

There was a recent fix related to links after the report in Pasted URLs in Rich Text Editor improperly escape tilde character

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Oh wow! This was done yesterday. I’m updating the latest 52 edits as we speak! Will let you know if it has been fixed already. :check_box_with_check: FIXED
Wow. Thanks, this indeed seems to be the exact same thing I am posting about.
You may ‘lock’ this topic. Thanks!

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