RTL and Hebrew friendly links

Adrian Ursu

Posted on 05/09/2018 20:12:10

Hi guys,

I have my fist situation of this kind. I am localizing a website to support Hebrew and RTL. RTL was easily solved with a Bootstrap fix but for Hebrew I have an issue with generating Friendly links.

I keep getting weird characters in the friendly links. Is this an expected behavior? Do I need to configure something specific on IIS to support the characters?

Should I avoid hebrew friendly links?

Thank you,

Adrian

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Nicolai Pedersen

Posted on 06/09/2018 13:45:31

Hi Adrian

Could you maybe be more specific in what you encounter...? And how your settings are for URLs?

When running non-latin charactersets in URLs, you should avoid the normalize latin characters checkbox.

BR Nicolai

Adrian Ursu

Posted on 06/09/2018 14:25:36

Hi Nicolai,

Unchecking the "Normalize..." option did the trick.

I will have a mix of English,Spanish and Hebrew on this application. Do you think I might have issues with Spanish if I leave it unchecked?

Thank you,
Adrian

Nicolai Pedersen

Posted on 06/09/2018 15:02:36

No, not at all. Google has been utf-8 compatible for 2500 years and never had issues with characters out the ascii space. Very old browsers had the issue though. And some SEO "experts" may have read something in 1999 they still consider valid knowledge :-).

Sorry cannot help myself.

BR Nicolai

Adrian Ursu

Posted on 06/09/2018 15:55:27

Hi Nicolai,

I was not worried about the SEO experts (at least not yet). More worried that the URL's might not work.

But I agree Spanish characters are more mainsream than other characters and it should be fine.

Thank you,

Adrian

Nicolai Pedersen

Posted on 07/09/2018 09:07:32

Yes, sorry! Just thought it was - it always is .-).

You are good with URLs. You need an at least 10 year old browser to run into problems with utf8 characters in the URLs, so I believe you are good.

BR Nicolai

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RTL and Hebrew friendly links

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