https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28519
Krinkle <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #5 from Krinkle <[email protected]> 2011-04-13 14:55:16 UTC --- (In reply to comment #2) > (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. I'm not sure this is correct. All of these can redirect to the "ugly encoded" version (depending on your browser) [1]: * http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/باراك_أوباما * http://mul.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama:ar * http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama So the ugly-ness factor of native-title urls seems irrelevant. The point is the url that you're sharing communication to others, which neither the second or third one is what will be in your browser addressbar. -- Krinkle [1]: For the record, accessing http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/باراك_أوباما (not a redirect) in Safari 5 or Firefox 4 does *not* redirect to a url encoded version, neither does MediaWiki link to urlencoded versions from inline links. So I could copy/paste http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/باراك_أوباما right from the browser to here. -- 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
