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Special:CiteThisPage should not percent-encode URLs but just use Unicode
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As was noted in a discussion in ukwiki

https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/16994858#.D0.A6.D0.B8.D1.82.D1.83.D0.B2.D0.B0.D0.BD.D0.BD.D1.8F

the Cite This Page tool provides Cyrillic and other non-Latin URLs percent-encoded. That is a non-convenient format for usage in particular in printed media. It is also too long and thus sometimes exceeds URL length limitations on some platforms.

Percent-encoding should be opted-out for either all wikis (preferable) or just Ukrainian wikis.

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Jdforrester-WMF renamed this task from Special:CiteThisPage should not percent-encode URLs to Special:CiteThisPage should not percent-encode URLs but just use Unicode.Sep 15 2015, 6:16 PM
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