{"id":14381,"date":"2017-10-11T16:44:45","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T20:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=14381"},"modified":"2017-10-11T16:44:45","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T20:44:45","slug":"ms-word-will-break-your-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/11\/ms-word-will-break-your-links\/","title":{"rendered":"MS Word will break your links!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was pleased to see that my <a href=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/21\/nerrrdy-bourgoin-mini-zine\/\">nerrrdy Bourgoin mini-zine<\/a> got cited in an art workbook for schools: <a href=\"http:\/\/textiles.teknollogy.com\/\">Islamic mosaics activity (Patterning)<\/a> from\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/textiles.teknollogy.com\/\">MathWeave<\/a>. Yay!<\/p>\n<p>But the link in the workbook doesn&#8217;t work! I mean, it <em>looks <\/em>right:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Screenshot-from-2017-10-11-16-32-35.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14382\" src=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Screenshot-from-2017-10-11-16-32-35.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"374\" height=\"30\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Screenshot-from-2017-10-11-16-32-35.png 374w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Screenshot-from-2017-10-11-16-32-35-160x13.png 160w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Screenshot-from-2017-10-11-16-32-35-320x26.png 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 374px) 100vw, 374px\" \/><\/a>While the real link is:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Screenshot-from-2017-10-11-16-32-52.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14383\" src=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Screenshot-from-2017-10-11-16-32-52.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"378\" height=\"32\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Screenshot-from-2017-10-11-16-32-52.png 378w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Screenshot-from-2017-10-11-16-32-52-160x14.png 160w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Screenshot-from-2017-10-11-16-32-52-320x27.png 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 378px) 100vw, 378px\" \/><\/a>Only when you copy the bad URL do you see the problem:<\/p>\n<pre>http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/21\/nerrrdy%E2%80%90bourgoin%E2%80%90mini%E2%80%90zine\/\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Word has changed the pasted \u00e2\u20ac\u02dc-\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s to \u00e2\u20ac\u02dc\u00e2\u20ac\u0090\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s: that&#8217;s from <strong>U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS<\/strong> to <strong>U+2010 HYPHEN<\/strong>. You&#8217;d have thought that software that was smart enough to recognize an URL would also be smart enough not to do any messing with the characters in it \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was pleased to see that my nerrrdy Bourgoin mini-zine got cited in an art workbook for schools: Islamic mosaics activity (Patterning) from\u00c2\u00a0MathWeave. Yay! But the link in the workbook doesn&#8217;t work! I mean, it looks right: While the real link is: Only when you copy the bad URL do you see the problem: http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/21\/nerrrdy%E2%80%90bourgoin%E2%80%90mini%E2%80%90zine\/ [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[53,3076,1481,3077],"class_list":["post-14381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-suck","tag-aargh","tag-hyphen","tag-url","tag-word"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-3JX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14384,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14381\/revisions\/14384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}