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EDGE Browser comes up with manipulated page title

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Summary by Seb35

Mysterious issue, solved with a workaround.

AnonymusGdpr (talkcontribs)

Hello altogether! In our small wiki, we have pages like this: https://www.perrypedia.proc.org/wiki/Portal_%22Intrawelt%22_(Zyklus)

In Firefox, opera, Chrome the page title shows: Portal "Intrawelt" (Zyklus)

Likewise does the EDGE browser, if I am _not_ logged in. With EDGE & being logged in, suddenly the title appears as: Portal "Intrawelt" #Zyklus#

Huh? When analyzing the source code, I can see the server sends (Zyklus) and I don't have any clue where and how the parenthesis are changed to hashes.

Server: Ubuntu 14.04.5, Apache 2.4.7, MySQL 5.5.61, Mediawiki 1.27.4 including several extensions Client: Windows 10, Microsoft Edge 42.17134.1.0

Does anyone have any ideas how and why this can happen? Sincerely, A.

Seb35 (talkcontribs)

A random idea: try deactivating JavaScript in Edge to check if it is a JavaScript issue. (I don’t have Edge myself, I cannot test.)

AnonymusGdpr (talkcontribs)

Good idea. Sadly, it's not possible to turn off javascript in Edge.

(I guess Edge is rarely used, but one of our members does.)

Seb35 (talkcontribs)

I checked the Common.js but it seems there is no such change.

Perhaps check on other pages with parentheses like or .

Also check with the skin MonoBook these three pages .

AnonymusGdpr (talkcontribs)

Hi Seb35! Now I have tried other pages and MonoBook. It is amazing, or annoying, or both: This one seems to be the _only_ page where the parenthesis replacement happens, and it does so in MonoBook either. Haven't tried other skins. Instead I tried moving the page and creating a new one. As soon as the page name changes, <Portal "Intrawelt" (Zyklus) x> -> the title is displayed correctly; created a new page <Portal "Intrawelt" (Zyklus)> -> hashes again. Also moving around the page (to dismiss probably wrong characters within the page title) did not work.

Finally I found a workaround. I inserted

DISPLAYTITLE:Portal "Intrawelt" &#x28;Zyklus&#x29;

and then it works, whatever browser, whatever skin. That's really odd. However, as long as this one is the only page I'll accept the deal.

Thank you for your effort, didn't want to steal your time!

Seb35 (talkcontribs)

That’s curious. And it’s great you found a workaround!