Problem with Arabic characters in all links!
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	• bzimport
	Jan 2 2006, 6:55 PM

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Author: ducklet_cat

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Hi,
One of the powerful features of the software is that it has the name of the article in the kink
itself such as:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_potter

So ideally, a link it Arabic should look like this:
http://ar.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=أدونيس

But unfortunetly in the browsre bar + even when hovering over the link the link that appears in the
status bar is always like that:
http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B3

Check any link here and the problem is always the same even in Arabic-enabled
systems:http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki

I was thinking of building a non-profit project with the software, but this problem has really put
me off, I hope there is a solution for it.

Thanks a lot
ducklet_cat@yahoo.com

Version: 1.5.x
Severity: normal
OS: Windows XP
Platform: PC
URL: http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B3

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 8:59 PM

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• bzimport created this task.Jan 2 2006, 6:55 PM

avarab wrote:

Resolving as INVALID, all links must be encoded properly, that is out of our
control.

avarab wrote:

...furthermore how your browser displays URI encoded strings is up to the
browser, not us.

ducklet_cat wrote:

Thanks for the reply.

1- How do I ensure that links are encoded properly?
2- and what browsers do you receommend? because I noticed the same problem in other languages of wikipedia
such as hebrew.

Thanks a lot!

This is the URI (Universal Resource Indentifier) encoding of an IRI
(Internationalized Resource Identifier), for maximum compatibility.

See http://www.w3.org/International/O-URL-and-ident.html for background
information.

If your browser understands IRIs, it may display them in a nice, attractive style.
Off the top of my head, Safari is known to do this; Firefox doesn't. I'm not sure
about MSIE.

As browsers continue to move ahead, IRI display will continue to improve in
browsers.

robchur wrote:

That's a "no" on IE.

(Well, what did you expect? ;-)

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