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?
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
hrefattribute values.