Hi all!

It seems to me that handling of non-ASCII characters in interwiki links (or in URLs in general) is a bit problematic. As an example, take [[en:Václav Havel]]. Since en: does not use UTF-8, the URL is ".../V%E1clav_Havel". If you try to use the interwiki link to cs: (specified in the source as [[cs:Václav Havel]]), it leads to http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%E1clav_Havel, which is _wrong_, because the cs: Wikipedia uses UTF-8 and the proper link should be ".../V%C3%A1clav_Havel". And, vice versa, the Czech article contains an interwiki link (specified again as [[en:Václav Havel]]) leads to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A1clav_Havel, which is, again, wrong.

I believe that a correct solution (apart from the long-term solution of using UTF-8 everywhere) could be: * Accept UTF-8 in URLs on en: (but how could they be recognized??) * Interwiki linking should use UTF-8 even on en: (or, does another Wikipedia except en: use latin-1?)

Best regards, [[cs:User:Mormegil | Petr Kadlec]]