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Mobile web: can't open talk page sections with certain characters in heading
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Description

On mobile web, discussion sections with certain characters in the heading don't open when clicked. The address bar changes, but the section doesn't open. There's no error visible in the javascript console.

I tested various characters at https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:The_wub/mobile_section_test, ones I found to cause the problem:

  • – en dash
  • — em dash
  • " double quote (but not ' single quote)
  • · dot

This is a fairly big problem, since it's quite common for users to "quote" things from the article in talk page headings.

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Masumrezarock100 subscribed.

Thanks for reporting this bug. Fortunately this has already been fixed in T238364. I could not reproduce this bug on the beta cluster because if is running on the latest version of Mediawiki. I think enwiki is still running on a older version of Mediawiki. This bug will not bug you anymore after the new version gets deployed.