**Author:** `gangleri`
**Description:**
note: This feature request might be a duplicate. I spend an half an hour searching an old request fromm an contributor in a Wikipedia using non Basic Latin UTF-8 characters.
Dear friends;
Last week I saw a link to a page from the Wikipedia in Hebrew on facebook. It was a public computer using Internet Explorer on a Windows in the State Library of Bavaria in Mubich. I was neither able to click on the link nor to copy the link from facebook and paste it to the url line in IE because to improper UTF-8 handling of involved programs and operating system.
As you know there are a lot of redirecting special pages as [[Special:MyPage]], [[Special:MyTalk]] and some spelling variants for many other special pages.
Today http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Gangleri/tests/sandbox/squares&oldid=307411828 is a permanent link to [[user_talk:Gangleri/tests/sandbox/squares]] a shorter version is http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=307411828 as implemented in [[wikt:yi:MediaWiki:Gadget-ShortLink]]
see also
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_User_scripts/Requests&oldid=190868168#toolbox_item_or_tab_with_a_short_format_link_using_.C2.AB_oldid.3D.7B.7BREVISIONID.7D.7D_.C2.BB
One solution to lates versions could be the implementation of "newest" as in a constructed link
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=307411828&newest
(I have no clue what this link generates today).
Because I experienced lots of problems posting links at facebook containing ampersands I would suggest to implement a save redirecting special page [[Special:Newest/190868168]].
Best regards Reinhardt [[user:Gangleri]]
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**Version**: unspecified
**Severity**: enhancement
**See Also**:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58727