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I'm not a native English speaker, but I still design urls to only contain a-z, 0-9, dot, dash, ?, ; (prefered over &), =, %, and /. No spaces, no umlauts, just
by eCa 14y ago
I'm not a native English speaker, but I still design urls to only contain a-z, 0-9, dot, dash, ?, ; (prefered over &), =, %, and /. No spaces, no umlauts, just the plain latin letters.
Why? It's prettier (imho), guaranteed to work everywhere and most people don't expect é, ü, å or ł to appear in urls.
- paulnechifor 14y agoI guess that's fair if you want to play it safe, but I don't agree that we should do something wrong because people are used to it that way. In Romanian “fata” can have 6 different meanings (some related) depending on how you put the diacritics: fata, fată, fața, față, făta, fâță. If you want your URLs to be meaningful and you care about people who don't use only English letters you should use all types of letters.