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submitted 2 months ago by silverchase@sh.itjust.works to c/wikipedia@lemmy.world

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Before there were retroreflective coatings on road signs, some places used retroreflective dots to trace the letters and shapes.

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[–] CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

For some reason my lemmy client, Thunder, can't display that image from Wikipedia, but the URL is correct. I can open it in a browser.

Reuploading it to Lemmy in case others have the same issue.

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This may be because the URL contains non-ASCII, which I haven't percent-encoded, despite having manually changed ( and ) to %28 and %29 to prevent the parentheses from interfering with Markdown syntax.

[–] CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That could be it. Incidentally, the image displays fine in the web UI. Must be a bug in Thunder.

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

could be it

There is an easy way to check. I percent-encoded all the non-ASCII characters now:

[–] CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Good work. I reported it as a bug in the thunder community.