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Umlaut in urls

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Umlaut in urls

Postby Andyp » 23 Sep 2020, 16:16

Just discovered that if a url contains an umlaut, like this ü, the link will not work

Eg https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hügelkultur
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Re: Umlaut in urls

Postby Robert » 23 Sep 2020, 16:50

Just had a play out of curiosity. If you take off the umlaut and just type u in its place it works.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugelkultur

Read a couple of pages that said special characters shouldn't be in URLs.
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Re: Umlaut in urls

Postby Woodster » 23 Sep 2020, 17:27

Strange, I just tried it and using a ü in the address bar works on my iPad.
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Re: Umlaut in urls

Postby Andyp » 23 Sep 2020, 17:29

thanks Robert
I've edited the url in the post.
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Re: Umlaut in urls

Postby Andyp » 23 Sep 2020, 17:30

Woodster wrote:Strange, I just tried it and using a ü in the address bar works on my iPad.


maybe the french equivalent of gremlins have got into my ipad
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Re: Umlaut in urls

Postby 9fingers » 23 Sep 2020, 17:41

I think possibly the forum software might be at fault.
The link as displayed with the umlaut is only underlined and coloured brown up to the umlaut and so will not work. However if the whole url is copied and pasted into a browser, it works just fine.

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