I tried adding both your first and third links to my profile and facebook was happy to attach them. All foreign symbols look correct. The problem, as one would suspect on a site that entertains 1e6*n users, is not with facebook.
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 12:42 AM, Amir E. Aharoni < [email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > Some of you may be familiar with sharing links on Facebook. > > If i try to share on Facebook an article from Wikipedia in Hebrew or in > Arabic, the Facebook interface offers to add a thumbnail not from the > article, but from the main page of that Wikipedia. The summary text > describing the link is also taken from the main page and not from the > article. > > It may have something to do with the non-ASCII title of the article: for > example, the Hebrew article about Haifa [1] has this problem, but the > Hebrew > article about Extreme Programming,[2] with an English title, is OK. > However, > it does not happen with non-ASCII titles on en.wp; for example "Ça > m'énerve" > is OK. > > Whose should fix it: Facebook or Wikipedia? Are there any differences in > definitions in this regard between en, ar and he? > > Thanks in advance. > > [1] http://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%97%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%94 > [2] http://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_Programming > [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%87a_m%27%C3%A9nerve > > -- > אמיר אלישע אהרוני > Amir Elisha Aharoni > > http://aharoni.wordpress.com > > "We're living in pieces, > I want to live in peace." - T. Moore > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
