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
>
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