Dne 4.2.2011 06:48, NLR REDDY napsal(a):
Hi,We are implementing a German language website but our servers are located in USA. We have created files and folders for the site in german characters (like schließen.html). Now, the problem is apache is unable to decode when the user clicks a link which has uri with german characters. I see 404 status message even though I can see the file in the folder. Can anyone help me resolve the issue. version of apache being used: 2.0.52.
Hi, do not use non-ASCII characters in URLs. I repeat DO NOT USE NON-ASCII CHARACTERS IN URLS :-) The problem is that RFCs defining URLs and later URIs are not defining which encoding is used for non-ASCII characters. The first RFCs for URLs were silent about encoding, later RFCs for HTML suggested iso-8859-1, and later RFCs for URIs recommended UTF-8. But there is no way how to specify which encoding is really used in URL. So the only safe way is to use ASCII characters only. You can express non-ASCII characters using ASCII by writing them as %XX where XX are hexadecimal digits, however in such way you express *bytes*, not *characters*, and that's big difference for non-ASCII characters. Even if you painfully ensure that all your URLs are in UTF-8 encoded in %XX and no buggy MSIE browser breaks them, there still may be problems when translating URLs to filesystem names. I know what I am talking about, my native language is Czech which uses a lot of non-ASCII characters, and I have experience with Czech websites for the last fourteen years. Cheers Martin -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Supercomputing Center Brno Martin Kuba Institute of Computer Science email: ma...@ics.muni.cz Masaryk University http://www.ics.muni.cz/~makub/ Botanicka 68a, 60200 Brno, CZ mobil: +420-603-533775 --------------------------------------------------------------
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