On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 12:00 AM, Brion Vibber <brion(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Well, it sounds like what you're trying to do is
to have the URLs
displayed in the browser without the percent encoding.
Some browsers will strip out the percents on UTF-8 URLs when they
display them (say, Safari), while some don't (say, Firefox). There's a
longstanding bug entry for Firefox to do this, not yet firmly addressed.
Some will only show the pretty Unicode characters if you don't encode
the URLs you generate yourself... others will re-encode them for you
even if you pass an unencoded IRI.
You might try messing about with the wfUrlencode() function a bit in
GlobalSettings.php. Be sure not to break the encoding of characters
which *must* be encoded!
-- brion vibber (brion @
wikimedia.org)
Opera is the only current browser that support IRIs the right way by
default. While Safari (for Windows) seems to support it right too and
by default, it has rather a funny show-stopper bug in rendering Arabic
scripts that deemed it certainly useless to Arabic users.
The function you've suggested looking at is really nothing more than
PHP's urlencode() with 2 regular expressions matching for including
':' and '/' as characters. I think there's a need to write a
converter
function that converts a URL string in percent-escape format to a
UTF-8 one. I'll see what I can do and respond back later on.
Although I'm quite impressed with the level of emphasis on
internationalization in MediaWiki, I'm a bit disappointed that IRIs,
which is now supported by almost all modern browsers, cannot be used
in MW.
Regards,
Usamah