Hello mediawiki-l,
I have my own wiki http://towiki.ru/ powered by MediaWiki, it's a CityWiki for Tomsk. It works fine in IE and Opera, but I have one problem in Firefox:
if I try to open URL (codepage in Windows is Russian: Windows-1251): http://towiki.ru/view/%D0%90%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BE
FireFox tries to retrieve incorrect URL: http://towiki.ru/view/%C3%80%C3%B1%C3%A8%C3%AD%C3%AE
but correct URL is: http://towiki.ru/view/%D0%90%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BE
It is because FireFox setting network.standard-url.encode-utf8 by default is set to false, see http://kb.mozillazine.org/Network.standard-url.encode-utf8
If I change in about:config network.standard-url.encode-utf8 to true, FireFox also works, but it is not a solution because everybody have this parameter switched to false.
BUT in ru-Wikipedia http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BE even with network.standard-url.encode-utf8=false gives http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BE so all works correct.
My question is - why it works correct in Wikipedia and how I can do the same for my wiki?
Thank you very much for your help!