Ask HN: Popularity of Unicode Versions of URLs?
5 comments
There's a solution but it's awkward. We scandinavians use æøå but rarely do we use them in URIs. Like the electronics chain "Elkjøp" uses "elkjop.no" - this is coincidentally one of the few that has actually registered "elkjøp.no".
I have "kråke.re" myself but the DNS entry is really xn--krke-roa.re because international character DNS is an ugly, ugly hack.
I have "kråke.re" myself but the DNS entry is really xn--krke-roa.re because international character DNS is an ugly, ugly hack.
Very interesting. Is it easy to type this special characters on your mobile?
That encoding is punycode, right?
That encoding is punycode, right?
I think all modern mobil keyboards show the regularly used chars depending on your language. So its very easy.
I think the punnycode encoding is just used for the domains, but not for the urls. The urls should be normal utf-8 encoding. Wonder why they made a difference at all.
I think the punnycode encoding is just used for the domains, but not for the urls. The urls should be normal utf-8 encoding. Wonder why they made a difference at all.
i once tried the unicode urls and they are a pain in the a§§ because some browser (and mail clients) interpret them differently. Also some search engines and/or crawlers interpret them different (mostly they are double encoded). This in turn results in several "errors" that the developer then has to re- en/decode again server side to serve the correct content to url.
On the other side: Just "transliterate" a url is super simple and people all over the world can at least read the url (and probably memorise). For example: ä => ae => everybody in Germany knows how to read and interpret this.
SEO wise: No difference at all.
On the other side: Just "transliterate" a url is super simple and people all over the world can at least read the url (and probably memorise). For example: ä => ae => everybody in Germany knows how to read and interpret this.
SEO wise: No difference at all.
I believe because of Cyrillic URL spoofing from a about 10-15 years ago most people stay away from UNICODE urls. China's numeric URL's maybe so that tracking URL's are easier, but that's just a guess.
I know China likes to use numerical URLs, which avoids this problem, but what about other places?