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== legal characters in URL string being escaped ==

I first noticed this problem during the time when the major hardware upgrade and site redesign were going on. That's not to say that it wasn't present before; I could have just not picked up on it.

It seems that any entry with parentheses in the title is having those characters escaped -- despite the fact that they are legal according to RFC 1738.

Now, when I first noticed this, it was working properly, but simultaneously to that, I was talking to a friend and when I referred him to the same page, he was seeing escaped characters.

To get an idea of what I'm talking about, try going here [[kingdom]] and then hover the (biology) link. The tooltip shows properly. The link appears in the bottom of the browser as it should, but when you go to the page, the URL string in the address bar appears as "Kingdom_%28biology%29".

I'm really interested in knowing what's causing this. At first, I thought it might be a wonky browser/font config, but I did some research that seemed to indicate that it's got to do with the way the webserver is returning and rendering page requests.