On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 6:59 AM, lmhelp <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > Thank you for reading my post. > It is a very "general" question I have to ask here... > I hope it is not such a bad place where to post it... > > In Wikipedia's "http://en.wikipedia.org/robots.txt"; file, > one can read: > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > # zh: > # https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5104 > Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia:åˆ é™¤æŠ•ç¥¨/ä¾µæ ƒ > Disallow: > /wiki/Wikipedia:%E5%88%A0%E9%99%A4%E6%8A%95%E7%A5%A8/%E4%BE%B5%E6%9D%83 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Can you explain me why one can find: > - strange characters like å or > - and codes like: %E5 > at the same time...? > > Question 1: is it due to a kind of "negligence"? > Question 2: what are these codes %E5, %99, %A4...? > Could you tell me where to find a good table which would tell me > for a given code what is the corresponding character...? > > Thanks in advance for your precious help! :-) > (And sorry for being so ignorant about that stuff). > Sincerely, > -- > Lmhelp > > -- > View this message in context: > http://old.nabble.com/Web-page-source---%22strange%22-characters-tp27999218p27999218.html > Sent from the WikiMedia General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l >
It's called URL or percent encoding. http://is.gd/aU8FC -Chad _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
