Re: [WikiVote] Translation Namespace Policy

[Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk>]

Clytie Siddall wrote:

> I would prefer a translated page-name, but
> I haven't seen UTF-8 wiki URLs yet, so in Vietnamese, we get dreadfully 
> messy-looking URLs like this:
>
> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/C%C3%A1ch_d%E1%BB%8Bch
>
> The pagename is simply:
>
> Cách dch
>
> or "how to translate".
>
> <sigh>
>
> It reminds me of the old ASCII days on Usenet, when we used to write like 
> this:
>
> To^i ra^'t thi'ch ddo.c nhu+~ng la' thu+ cu?a ba.n. Tuy nhie^n, to^i kho^ng 
> the^? hie^?u lo+`i gia?i thi'ch ve^`...
>
> although that's actually easier on the eye than the Wiki pagenames.

Is there any good reason for not transcribing URL's into the 
URL character set (less than full ASCII), rather than 
putting lots of hexadecimal codes in the URL's?

Besides that the transcription is language specific?  Or 
maybe that is bad enough in itself.

Greetings,

Jacob
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