By FRNash/PHX, AZ (Frnash) on Friday, August 1, 2008 - 03:32 pm:
Mary says:
if you replace the comma with "%2C" (without the quotation marks), the link will then work.
Or if it is easier, just insert a "\" (without the quotes) in front of each comma in the URL, thus:
URL before:
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en-GB&ie=UTF8&q=paradise,michigan&ll=46.634351,-85.120869&spn=0.061647,0.098877&z=13&iwloc=addr
URL after:
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en-GB&ie=UTF8&q=paradise\,michigan&ll=46.634351\,-85.120869&spn=0.061647\,0.098877&z=13&iwloc=addr
From Formatting your post
Quote:"
when you are using a tag that requires 2 or more arguments and you want to include a comma within the arguments (and not have it interpreted as a separator), you must escape it with a backslash.
The same applies when posting a URL that includes commas!
The "\" just "hides" the comma from the forum parsing engine; when shown in the message, the "\" won't be visible, but they will have done their job.)
The modified URL: