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 < amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il> 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
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