The below links aren't working in Safari...
I've been researching how alot of open source cms's and blog tools deal with this issue and they don't. Most of them either have some kind of conversion map (that is completely inadequate for the task) or they create urls that have little to do with the page title. For instance...
http://www.site.com/1-eaeraceceac.php // <= the "eaeraceceac" is a botched character conversion from Chinese
or
http://www.site.com/page0001.php // <= no reference to the page title whatsoever...
The Chinese websites I have looked up have latin1 style urls...no sign of Chinese text anywhere in there.
Aside of requiring a Chinese to enter in a latin page name for an article/entry/page I can't see any way possible to create urls (clean urls) using Chinese (non-latin) characters.
Ideas?
thanks...v
On Jun 7, 2005, at 1:11 AM, tee wrote:
Hi Vaska, as the w3c links Anders provided, it can. However I will be very
skeptical to using it as obviously browsers are not advance enough to handle
it, but then it maybe the server issue too. Sorry, I am too ignorant on this
matter to tell you anything more.
I did a test on Safari, FF, IE and Opera by entering domain in Chinese, only
FF picks up the address. Wonder how it works on PC browsers.
You may like to try:
Simplified Chinese sites:
A Chinese famous seach engine <baidu.com> = ~{0Y6H~}
Or this <163.com> = ~{RWMx~}
Ebay China <ebay.com.cn> = ~{RWH$~}
Traditional sites:
<tw.yahoo.com> = ~{FfD&~}
<yam.com> = ~{^,JmLY~}
These are domains but the one Anders provided does have a path in Japanese
character, and it works in FF.
http://www.w3.org/International/tests/sec-iri-3
tee
From: Vaska.WSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 21:32:08 +0200
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] problem with utf-8 page encoding
tee, or really any Chinese person on this list,
one thing that I've been cuious about is how do you deal with creating
urls. this could sound extremely naive and i'm sorry for that. it's
my understanding that use of latin1 characters only is allowed to make
a url...or create folders etc...
http://www.this-is-latin1-text.com/and-this-is-a-folder/and-this-is-a-
filename.php
this wouldn't be possible...
http://www.~{6(;[EMAIL PROTECTED]~{Q!Pc~}.com/~{6(;[EMAIL PROTECTED]/~{6(;[EMAIL PROTECTED].php
i've been having to find a way to deal with this issue and so far i've
only come up with workarounds that just don't seem very user-friendly.
i was looking at conversion maps but it became a completely crazy
exercise...
v
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