https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28519
--- Comment #2 from Amir E. Aharoni <[email protected]> 2011-04-13 06:02:54 UTC --- (In reply to comment #1) > To ask the stupid question, why not send > http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/باراك_أوباما in an email. 99% of modern programs > will convert that to the correct percent encoding. It will correct it to the right percent encoding, but it will be very long. Just look at my first comment. And that's a relatively short name; it could be much longer, for example, like http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AC%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%A9_%D8%B3%D9%86%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86 . It usually goes through, but it's terribly ugly. And in an IM program, like, GMail chat, sending such a link fills the whole screen with percent signs and digits. > This personally seems kind of icky to me. If we did have the ability to > resolve > interlanguage names like this, and wanted to do something like this, why > wouldn't we just make http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/<magic name in some other > lang> automatically redirect to the correct page? Also possible. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. You are the assignee for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
