Ampersand in URL

[marcocevoli]

Hi,

Whenever I try to add a new URL with an ampersand in it, the plugin fails to load in OmegaT. I've tried to encode the ampersand as %26 (percentage twenty-six), but this is taken literally (so the link doesn't work). Am I doing something wrong or is it really a bug? Thanks in advance and thanks a million for this plugin, which is exactly what I was looking for in a while. :) Marco

[hiohiohio]

Hi Marco,

Thank you for using this plugin and sorry for late replying (I should set something to send a notification email). Can you please try to use "&" instead of "&"?

Kind Regards, Chihiro

[marcocevoli]

Please add the right notation with spaces, because the editor here converts the entities... I see "&" instead of "&" ...

[hiohiohio]

Oh sorry. I have edited the previous comment.

Can you please try to use "&" instead of "&"?

[marcocevoli]

I already tried it and it doesn't work. The problem seems to be the & sign (which, of course) is present in & a m p ... :)

[hiohiohio]

Can you please try this item? It works for me on OSX 10.7.5 with OmegaT 3.1.4 and Windows 7 with OmegaT 2.6.3 using embedded JRE.

---

<item>
    <name>Google (_ja)</name>
    <url target="both" encoding="default">https://www.google.com/search?q=%22{target}%22&amp;lr=lang_ja&amp;ie=UTF-8</url>
</item>

---

[marcocevoli]

Perfect! it works on OmegaT 3.1.6 - Windows 8.1 I think I put different options in target and encoding. Could that be the reason? Thanks a million!

[hiohiohio]

Thank you for the feedback. I do not think the options in this context are related to the plugin loading error. Therefore, you can set any combinations of options as you want.

[marcocevoli]

Ok. Then I probably missed the semicolon when I first tested the URL with & a m p ;

[hiohiohio]

Actually, I believe this plugin still has some bugs. So if you see errors again, please let me know! I will add the URL which includes an ampersand in the example. I appreciate your feedback. Thank you.