2009/10/16 Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni(a)mail.huji.ac.il>
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 19:03, Platonides
<Platonides(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Actually, most of the time i use a bookmark that runs some JS code
that shares the current site. In any case, the result is the same -
whether i use the bookmark or manually enter the URL with %'s or with
Hebrew chars.
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.
Andrew Dunbar (hippietrail)
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