Multilingual blog in wordpress needs URL suggestion
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I am working on a multilingual blog build in WordPress.From the first day I see the URL structure getting abrupt when I add an article in other language.
The following is an example of abrupt URL.
http://muslim-academy.com/%D9%81%D8%B6%D9%84-%D9%82%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A1%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D8%B1%D8%A2%D9%86-3/is their some plugin to fix it or some manual change?
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This is all to do with the technical handling of non ASCII characters and how they have to be presented in the URL. If the browser is set to UTF-8 then it should be able to read the percent encoding. Take a read of these:
http://www.jamesburton.net/url-design-for-international-seo/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent-encoding
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3907995/how-to-support-utf8-japanese-arabic-spanish-urls-in-php
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I was unable to find a plug-in that will decode your URL however I do have some information on how to fix it
I took your URL and placed it into a decoder and got this
http://muslim-academy.com/فضل-قراءة-القرآن-3/
I'm assuming this is what you want?
here is the link to the decoder
http://www.statmyweb.com/tools/encode_decode/
as far as any plug-in goes this is as close as I could find.
I think reading this will benefit you as well
http://crunchify.com/java-how-to-encode-or-decode-url-string-or-form-parameter/
http://webstartavenue.com/free-widgets/url-decodeencode-widget.html
here is a good example of a website that is able to use the same language you are however also other languages and not have an issue with the encoding of URLs
http://muslim-academy.com/category/blog/language-options/english-blog/
I hope this can need you in the right direction,
Thomas
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