Problem

Adding special character in the page title leads to create of new page in edit mode when pasting page url in another page.

Environment

7.4.3

Steps to Reproduce

• Create a page with the title "This is | first page". (Notice the URL in the browser it would we converting to %7c for | symbol.) 

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• Copy the URL of the page from the browser created in first step.
• Create another page with the title  "TestPage" and paste the URL in it. 

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  When we paste URL in the "TestPage" it gets converted in to TT:This is , which is representing spacekey:text of the title before the \ symbol.

• When we click on the link it open a new page (but not the "This is | first page") in edit mode as below (Page name would be the text after the | symbol): 

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Expected Results

Clicking on the link should open the actual page named "This is | first page"

Actual Results

Clicking on the link will open a new page in the edit mode ( and Page name would be the text after the | symbol): 

Workaround

Link the page with page ID/tiny URL and not the actual page title. 

•  Copy the page URL via navigating to  …  -> Page information -> copy URL 
• 

Notes

Adding special character in the page leads to new page in edit mode.

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-11285