Search Engines and Special Characters

In directory and filenames

[Nick_W]

Hi all,

how does this grab you?

http://somesite.com/path/to/special-шеж-chars/

Spiders have a problem with that? - I can't see much reason why they should as long as my server doesnt....

Cheers

Nick

[killroy]

Just wanted to mention something regarding the recent discussion of similar chars in titles. To my surprise I found that alternatively the characters were shown or garbled in different search windows. On closer inspection I saw that the one had this:

<meta HTTP-EQUIV="content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=UTF-8">

While the other window had this:

<meta HTTP-EQUIV="content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">

in the source code.

Both are google pages, one a simple search the other a search by site and so on. I haven't yet figured out what triggers each character set.

I'm not sure how that influences special chars in URLs, but it might, for sure for display of asian characters in unicode charsets.

SN

[Nick_W]

Hmm... interesting, but not really what I'm talking about.

So, anyone have any experience of the example in my post above?

Many thanks..

Nick

[brotherhood of LAN]

Nick,

These characters will get converted into hex(?) codes when fetched across the web, check out this search

allinurl:еж and click on the URL

AFA spiders are concerned i don't think you'll have a problem, as for ranking, probably a whole different story ;)