On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 2:57 AM, Andrew Dunbar <[email protected]> wrote: > I think it's a case of modern browsers behaving differently to older > browsers. Older browsers only supported encoded URLs with % as the URL/URI > standard is defined. But these are very user-unfriendly so modern browsers > now convert these URLs into something readable for people whose native > language does not use Latin script. I think Facebook only accepts URLs which > comply to the standard and not the userfriendly human readable ones > supported by modern browsers. > > So it's no bug in Mediawiki and not really a bug in Facebook but it would be > a userfriendly improvement for Facebook to interpret non-Latin URLs just as > the modern browsers do.
URLs containing non-Latin characters are standardized, and known as IRIs. Lack of good IRI support in today's Web should probably count as a bug. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
