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I was going to remark on that ugly URL, only to discover that using en-dashes, which have to be percent-encoded in URLs, is official Wikipedia policy! https://e
by sbierwagen 6y ago
I was going to remark on that ugly URL, only to discover that using en-dashes, which have to be percent-encoded in URLs, is official Wikipedia policy! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Dashes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style#Dash... How unbelivably braindead.
- michaelt 6y agoHacker News and Wikipedia render links containing 毛泽东 correctly, but browsers copy-and-paste them as https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E6%AF%9B%E6%B3%BD%E4%B8%9C https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E6%AF%9B%E6%B3%B... and somehow it's Wikipedia's fault browsers do that?
- sbierwagen 6y agoIt is most certainly Wikipedia's fault that their style guide requires –, Unicode EN DASH U+2013, rather than -, Unicode HYPHEN-MINUS U+002D out of some misguided desire for typographical "correctness". That is 100% Wikipedia's choice, and it ruins their URLs, for no good reason.