Farsi (Persian) characters in URL ??

[eluser]Mohsen32[/eluser]
I got an error saying that those farsi (Persian) characters are not allowed in URLs, You know, It's essential for SEO.
How can I allow Farsi characters (Such as: ا ب پ ت) without risking anything.

[eluser]eoinmcg[/eluser]
In short you can't have Farsi characters in your URLs

According to the RFC 1738: Uniform Resource Locators (URL) specification:

"Only alphanumerics [0-9a-zA-Z], the special characters "$-_.+!*'()," [not including the quotes - ed], and reserved characters used for their reserved purposes may be used unencoded within a URL"

See also this thread

For SEO purposes you can, of course, have your page title in Farsi.

Good luck

[eluser]Ibrahim Mohamed Abotaleb[/eluser]
I have tried to solve this problem to use arabic characters in url
and i have reach to convert allowed characters variable in config to disallowed characters like

Code:

$config['permitted_uri_chars'] = '~`!#$%^&()[]{};\':",<>';

and edit URI library in line 189
from

Code:

if ( ! preg_match("|^[".preg_quote($this->config->item('permitted_uri_chars'))."]+$|i", $str))

to

Code:

if (  preg_match("|^.[".preg_quote($this->config->item('permitted_uri_chars'))."]|", $str))

[eluser]Mohsen32[/eluser]
[quote author="eoinmcg" date="1246275123"]In short you can't have Farsi characters in your URLs

According to the RFC 1738: Uniform Resource Locators (URL) specification:

"Only alphanumerics [0-9a-zA-Z], the special characters "$-_.+!*'()," [not including the quotes - ed], and reserved characters used for their reserved purposes may be used unencoded within a URL"

See also this thread

For SEO purposes you can, of course, have your page title in Farsi.

Good luck[/quote]

How come wikipedia could do something like this:
fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/گوگل





[quote author="Ibrahim Mohamed Abotaleb" date="1246289955"]I have tried to solve this problem to use arabic characters in url
and i have reach to convert allowed characters variable in config to disallowed characters like

Code:

$config['permitted_uri_chars'] = '~`!#$%^&()[]{};\':",<>';

and edit URI library in line 189
from

Code:

if ( ! preg_match("|^[".preg_quote($this->config->item('permitted_uri_chars'))."]+$|i", $str))

to

Code:

if (  preg_match("|^.[".preg_quote($this->config->item('permitted_uri_chars'))."]|", $str))

[/quote]

Is there any security risk in this solution?

[eluser]Mohsen32[/eluser]
Any help with this dirty problem?

[eluser]behrooz[/eluser]
i have this problem ??

[eluser]Sbioko[/eluser]
You can set permitted_uri_chars to ''. But don't forget to xss cleaning in URI.php function _filter_uri. I successfully do things like that.

[eluser]behrooz[/eluser]
thank you
happy birthday

[eluser]Sbioko[/eluser]
Thank you!