URLs containing Unicode are rendered "percent-escaped", making them hard to read.

When I paste an URL (actually an IRI) that contains unicode into a chat, it comes out "percent escaped" instead of natural.

Instead of looking like this:

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/日本

It looks like this:

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC

I can type in Japanese in the discord chat (I use it for Japanese class). But when I paste an URL, it's escaped.

More than anything, URLs that look like this are impossible to read. The first I can read and know what I will get when I click on it. The second is not so transparent - it could be anything.

This is an accessibility issue - without being able to see what the URL is indicating I am less likely to click the link.

This is not dissimilar to these two requests, but I believe this to be the generic use case where these two requests specify emoji.

*** NEW FEATURE REQUEST *** support emoji in domain names

*** NEW FEATURE REQUEST *** support emoji in domain names because they presently behave badly

thecrius

May 05, 2021 08:33

That is not discord, it's how browser works.

URL only support UTF8 charcode by default and while the UI can convert it to your OS charset, the actual code are escaped characters to allow it to works on webservers that have to interpret the URL to an actual content matching it.

When you copy the URL, the browser actually copy the URL encoding of it because that will universally works.

As a further proof that it's not a discord problem, as you said yourself, when you type directly in the text input, it reads and write the characters correctly.

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