urls are parsed incorrectly if they contain brackets

[Tom Badran]

Binary package hint: xchat-gnome

In the main chat window, urls are noticed so you an right click and open in a browser, however urls with ( or ) in get parsed incorrecty, for instance (actually quite common with wikipedia urls):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screwdriver_(cocktail)

gets parsed to be:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screwdriver_

My assumption would be there are other characters that the same thing happens with, but im not savvy enough on the url rfc to know what should and shouldnt be valid.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Aug 6 14:45:53 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/xchat-gnome
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: xchat-gnome 1:0.18-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: xchat-gnome
ProcCwd: /home/tom
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xchat-gnome
Uname: Linux vader 2.6.22-9-generic #1 SMP Fri Aug 3 00:50:37 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This bug is known upstream please take a look to: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1766860&group_id=239&atid=100239

[Mike.lifeguard (mikelifeguard)]

Pedro, please note that that is a bug for XChat, which is not the same program as XChat-gnome!