Nao

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Re: Wedge & SEO
« Reply #45, on April 9th, 2011, 10:41 PM »
Oh. So it's settable!

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Re: Wedge & SEO
« Reply #46, on April 9th, 2011, 11:05 PM »
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Re: Wedge & SEO
« Reply #47, on April 9th, 2011, 11:56 PM »
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@Aaron> You know, it's just a matter of stripping out the unsafe characters from URLs (#, /, things like that) and leaving out the rest... Since the matching is done in UTF mode, it does leave complex characters in the URL as expected. ;)
Ah, you're keeping the URLs in unicode, then? The most semantically correct option, I guess. :)
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Nao

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Re: Wedge & SEO
« Reply #49, on April 10th, 2011, 12:14 PM »
Also, with URLs always containing the topic ID, getting a wrong topic title (through incompatible charsets or things like that) is still okay, you don't "lose" it. You may end up with a 404 error if trying to visit a board with complex chars, though. Haven't looked into that (much).

Aaron

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Re: Wedge & SEO
« Reply #50, on April 10th, 2011, 12:18 PM »
Indeed. Would be nice if you'd do a 301 redirect to the proper URL in such cases, btw. :)

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Re: Wedge & SEO
« Reply #51, on April 10th, 2011, 12:24 PM »
When the topic title is different from the actual current one...?
I don't know, hmm how do I make sure a string is equivalent to another, whatever the format they're in...? urldecode() first I suppose, then...

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Re: Wedge & SEO
« Reply #52, on April 10th, 2011, 02:21 PM »
Well, if you're already generating a canonical url for each page, you could compare against that, I suppose... SMF has loads of duplicate urls though -- not sure how much of them you lot have tackled already, but they might result in a few extra (unwanted?) redirects...