2009/10/16 Amir E. Aharoni amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 19:03, Platonides Platonides@gmail.com wrote:
It's a problem at facebook. Did you try with % encoded urls, (eg. http://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%97%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%94 ) or only hebrew ones? (eg. http://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%97%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%94http://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%97%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%94).
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)
-- אמיר אלישע אהרוני Amir Elisha Aharoni
"We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace." - T. Moore
Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l