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cyrillic URL

Post by Bullee » 04 Aug 2021 17:54

Hello,

i have search here but could not find it,
i wanne have normal cyrillic url show, the same as cyrillic names with show normal but when i copy a cyrillic URL by the notes URL digital location i get strage text and this don't show als good when you publish a report ?

already thanks for the answer.

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Re: cyrillic URL

Post by tatewise » 04 Aug 2021 18:08

URL cannot use Cyrillic text. URL are strictly limited to A-Z a-z 0-9 and a few symbols.
The display name of a URL can use any text.

Please explain exactly what you are copying and where you are copying it to.
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Re: cyrillic URL

Post by Bullee » 04 Aug 2021 18:41

Hello, for example, when you select this URL en past this in your internet browser, you see ther normal cyrillic writing,



https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0 ... 0%B8%D1%87

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Re: cyrillic URL

Post by Gowermick » 04 Aug 2021 18:53

tatewise wrote:
04 Aug 2021 18:08
URL cannot use Cyrillic text. URL are strictly limited to A-Z a-z 0-9 and a few symbols.
The display name of a URL can use any text.

Please explain exactly what you are copying and where you are copying it to.
Mike,
That’s rather a broad statemenr! Surely native Russian websites use Cyrillic in their URLs, or were you specifically referring to URLs within FH?
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Re: cyrillic URL

Post by tatewise » 04 Aug 2021 18:58

Jan, yes, but notice that there are no Cyrillic characters in that URL.
They are all A - Z 0 - 9 and % which is how Cyrillic characters are encoded in URL.
The web browser address bar translates that encoding into Cyrillic characters but FH cannot do that

You must use the FH rich text Note editor and the Add Link > Add Web Link... option.
Paste the URL into the Web Address: box.
Paste Голицын, Василий Васильевич from the Wiki page title into the Display Text (if different): box.

That will give you a link like this: Голицын, Василий Васильевич
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Re: cyrillic URL

Post by tatewise » 04 Aug 2021 19:07

Mike Loney, the set of characters I posted are the URL restricted character set specified in the WWW RFC 1738 & 3986.
Cyrillic characters and other foreign characters are not allowed, so must use Percent Encoding, as in Jan's example.
See What is URL Encoding and How does it work?
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Re: cyrillic URL

Post by Gowermick » 04 Aug 2021 20:02

Thanks, I wasn’t aware of that. You live and learn :D
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