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Tech:No message notification for users with underscore in name
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[edit] What happens
Has the latest upgrade broken it? I got some new messages on my talk page and did not get any notifications (WinXP+Firefox). I don't know if it ever worked for me, as I hadn't got any messages between yesterday and 5th March, when the feature was rolled out. --Ravikiran 21:12, 12 March 2006 (EST)
- Just to note here that the problem is almost surely related to the underscore in my username. If I am the only one or one of the very few with an underscore, then I guess that the problem is low priority as I don't really want to be notified of messages in my talk page. — Ravikiran 05:58, 8 April 2006 (EDT)
[edit] When it happens
[edit] What should happen
[edit] How to fix it
The underscore was getting translated into a space in the MediaWiki software, and thence into a "+" in the user cookie. Converting spaces and pluses to underscores universally seems to fix the problem. --Evan 11:54, 28 September 2006 (EDT)
- Confirming this as fixed. — Ravikiran r 04:02, 29 September 2006 (EDT)
