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Reputation: 44663

cyrillic characters incorrect in html markup but visually correct

I am developing a site in mvc4 where the content of the site includes both latin and cyrillic characters. Both are included in markup and both display correctly on screen.

However, within the markup, I have seen issues with cyrillic where url's for example are like following:

/%d1%81%d0%bf%d0%b8%d1%81%d0%be%d0%ba%20%d0%bf%d0%be%d0%b6%d0%b5%d0%bb%d0%b0%d0%bd%d0%b8%d0%b9

The url navigate correctly when clicked on, but incorrect in html markup. I have the meta charset set to utf-8 in a meta tag.

Any ideas whats causing this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 829

Answers (1)

Jukka K. Korpela
Jukka K. Korpela

Reputation: 201818

What you see is correct %-encoded (aka. URL-encoded) form of the URL “/список пожеланий” (as you can see using a decoder). Browser may display a URL in their address bar as %-encoded, or as decoded to characters. HTML authoring software or, in manual editing of HTML code, the author should take care of %-encoding anything that needs to be %-encoded at the HTTP protocol level, such as href attribute values.

Upvotes: 1

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