Non-Latin characters in URLs - is it better to encode them or replace with their Latin "counterparts
- by Pawel Krakowiak
We're implementing a blog for a site which supports six different languages and five of them have non-Latin characters in their alphabets. We are not sure whether we should have them encoded (that is what we're doing at the moment)
Létání s potravinami: Co je dovoleno? becomes l%c3%a9t%c3%a1n%c3%ad-s-potravinami-co-je-dovoleno and the browser displays it as létání-s-potravinami-co-je-dovoleno.
or if we should replace them with their Latin "counterparts" (similar looking letters)
Létání s potravinami: Co je dovoleno? becomes letani-s-potravinami-co-je-dovoleno.
I can't find a definitive answer as to what's better from SEO perspective? Search engine optimization is very important for us. Which approach would you suggest?