On 26 March 2012 08:38, Ariel T. Glenn <ar...@wikimedia.org> wrote: .. > As one of those non latin script users, it irks me no end when I see a > url that is opaque to me soley because it's been url-encoded. I would > love a "smarter" url shortener; there's no reason projects with a latin1 > script should produce human readable urls while the rest of us get to > guess where links on our projects lead. Even somewhat weird > romanization is better than what we have now. > > Ariel
Perhaps this is one of these problems that can't be solved just with computers. Anyway It seems theres a system to convert unicode to ascii and back to the original ascii. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode This http://xn--caon-hqa.es.wikipedia.org/ and http://cañon.es.wikipedia.org/ is the same url. The ugly face of the problem shows with something like this: मुखपृष्ठ turns into xn--21bu3ao1c3cq5f, I don't help any human is helped by reading or writting "xn--21bu3ao1c3cq5f". http://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%96%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%83%E0%A4%B7%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A0 http://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/xn--21bu3ao1c3cq5f :P -- -- ℱin del ℳensaje. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
