I've noticed that SE can't deal with links nor tags which has a character with diacritic accent in it.
About links, I feel it's important to allow this as RAE website needs the accent and depending on the format, it doesn't work:
Writing
ú:It doesn't work at all.
URL:
buscon.rae.es/draeI/SrvltConsulta?TIPO_BUS=3&LEMA=númerohttp://buscon.rae.es/draeI/SrvltConsulta?TIPO_BUS=3&LEMA=número
A link (it doesn't work, though it's formatted like a link)
Encoded in hexadecimal (
%FA):It works, but the URL shows the hexadecimal.
URL:
buscon.rae.es/draeI/SrvltConsulta?TIPO_BUS=3&LEMA=n%FAmerohttp://buscon.rae.es/draeI/SrvltConsulta?TIPO_BUS=3&LEMA=n%FAmero
Encoded in HTML (
úorú):It works fine, showing the
ú.URL:
buscon.rae.es/draeI/SrvltConsulta?TIPO_BUS=3&LEMA=númerohttp://buscon.rae.es/draeI/SrvltConsulta?TIPO_BUS=3&LEMA=número
With tags it doesn't work at all:
Writing
ú:format:
[tag:números][tag:números]
Encoded in hexadecimal (
%FA):format:
[tag:n%FAmeros][tag:n%FAmeros]
Encoded in HTML (
úorú):format:
[tag:números][tag:números]
So, the best thing would be using HTML encoding when writing the URL. However, this would make users search the encoding of the desired character, and users might not know how to do this. Thus, my opinion is that we should ask SO to implement that an with URL an accent that is not encoded works:
The user writes:
buscon.rae.es/draeI/SrvltConsulta?TIPO_BUS=3&LEMA=número
It shows:
http://buscon.rae.es/draeI/SrvltConsulta?TIPO_BUS=3&LEMA=número
In tags, it depends on how they are finally translated, but my opinion is that accents should work.
Do you feel this is important for the site, should make users to encode accents (or edit them), or should we ask to implement this feature (or fix the bug)?
