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Characters in URLs

글쓴이: carbsrule, 2016년 10월 2일

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언어: English

carbsrule (프로필 보기) 2016년 10월 2일 오후 12:41:31

When using Esperanto words in (SEO-friendly) URLs, what's recommended for the characters with circumflexes (i.e. ĉ, ĝ, ĥ, ĵ, ŝ, ŭ)? I can see 4 possibilities:

1) Use the characters as they are (may not work for all browsers etc. although I haven't looked too deeply into this yet)
2) Convert using the x-system
3) Convert using the h-system
4) Just remove the circumflex; e.g. convert ĉ to c

Roch (프로필 보기) 2016년 10월 2일 오후 7:24:05

nornen (프로필 보기) 2016년 10월 3일 오전 2:35:22

Anything newer than Mozilla 1.4, Netscape 7.1, Opera 7.11 should be OK with unicode URLs. source

The "percent-encoding" actually doesn't change a thing, because it is just an encoding, a way of representing the characters. This encoding generally happens on-the-fly, invisible to the user. For instance, when I hover my mouse over your second link, the tooltip says "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ĉeĥio".

See RFC 3986 for more details.

To answer OP's question: I would suggest to use the actual characters.

carbsrule (프로필 보기) 2016년 10월 3일 오전 10:20:12

Thanks!

Yeah I played around and came to the same conclusion - if I use percent encoding (via the urlencode method in PHP), it should be fine. I'll still test all the browsers anyway. I'll bet IE will find some way of giving me trouble.

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