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thunderbird package

  1. Bug #411358
  2. Comment #21

Comment 21 for bug 411358

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In , Paul-boddie-t (paul-boddie-t) wrote :

It seems like plus characters on separate lines can also trigger this annoying behaviour. For example, from a MediaWiki update message (delimited by "----"):

----
-
Follow these steps
 +
Follow the prompts. Here is an example search:
----

This produces the following error:

----
Bad key or directory name: "/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/button-apop-upwindowwillappear.-Followthesesteps+Followtheprompts.Hereisanexamplesearch/command": `+' is an invalid character in key/directory names
Bad key or directory name: "/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/button-apop-upwindowwillappear.-Followthesesteps+Followtheprompts.Hereisanexamplesearch/command": `+' is an invalid character in key/directory names
----

So anyone using the admittedly poor confirmation message feature of MediaWiki will potentially run into this at some point.