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Jan Dembowski
(@jdembowski)
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Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not an Everything else WordPress topic.
The browsers handle non-ASCII right to left characters in URLs poorly.
This is the URL in your example.
/ספגטי-עגבניות-חמאה-ובזיליקום/
Which is fine in Hebrew but the URL gets “normalized” into ASCII.
https://www.lookout.net/2012/03/unicode-normalization-in-urls.html
So you get that large formatted string as a URL. A modern browser will display it correctly but the actual URL is normalized in the way you described.
Thread Starter
Daniel
(@davil2008)
so is there a way to change this ?
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Jan Dembowski
(@jdembowski)
Forum Moderator and Brute Squad
Not really. 😉
It’s a browser convention to ensure that your URLs will work regardless of the method or path to get to your site. It’s a least common denominator issue and in this case that is ASCII encoding.
For example, if your users were behind a web proxy that did not work with unicode. The user tries to go to your site and the proxy rejects it as a malformed request. The user is frustrated and won’t think that the proxy should be updated. They’ll blame your site.
Not all things handle UNICODE (though all things should) but everything on the Internet does handle ASCII. And the browser will display the URL correctly for the user even though it’s normalized into ASCII.
Thread Starter
Daniel
(@davil2008)
And if I would change the urls to be in english would it be fixed ?
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Jan Dembowski
(@jdembowski)
Forum Moderator and Brute Squad
Yes, but that’s conditional on the character encoding. If you used a post slug like this:
/spaghetti-in-butter-tomato-sauce-and-basil/
in ASCII that works.
In UNICODE as a subset of the language you are using then it may not change it for you. And I do not think that normalization will hurt you in SEO tough I am not an SEO person so I may be wrong.
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Jan Dembowski
(@jdembowski)
Forum Moderator and Brute Squad
I asked another member of the Support Team, you may want to instead try this plugin and see if that helps you out.
https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/cyr2lat/
If you want your permalink to be short and simple
you can just go to Settings > Permalinks > Post Name
with the help of this all of your posts will have shorter link
and the permalink will depend upon on your postname
Tell Me if this was Helpful:)
Thread Starter
Daniel
(@davil2008)
OK, I installed the plugin, what should I do in the settings ?
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Daniel
(@davil2008)
Until now the https://justcook.co.il/sample-post/ was active, and I now changed to custom and entered /%postname%/ but the problem persists. I’m sorry if I’m not describing the settings correctly, my dashboards in Hebrew, although I already tried changing the language to english and whats weird is that wp-admin still was in hebrew, only on the public site all the alignments changed. Could you help me with too ?
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Jan Dembowski
(@jdembowski)
Forum Moderator and Brute Squad
I’ve never used that plugin, it was suggested to me because users may be put off from clicking
/%d7%a1%d7%a4%d7%92%d7%98%d7%99-%d7%a2%d7%92%d7%91%d7%a0%d7%99%d7%95%d7%aa-%d7%97%d7%9e%d7%90%d7%94-%d7%95%d7%91%d7%96%d7%99%d7%9c%d7%99%d7%a7%d7%95%d7%9d/
Instead of clicking
/ספגטי-עגבניות-חמאה-ובזיליקום/
As you know the second one is clearly better for users to see instead of that long one.
If you need help with that plugin then you may want to raise a topic in that plugin’s support forum. This link will let you do that.
https://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/plugin/cyr2lat/#new-post
Thread Starter
Daniel
(@davil2008)
OK, I will. But your saying that if I’ll change all the permalinks to english this issue would be resolved ? And what can cause this if I write the permalink in english, numbers, special symbols like @ or # ?
Thread Starter
Daniel
(@davil2008)
and nice hebrew buy the way !!
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