When inserting a hyperlink containing 'umlaute' (e.g. http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Xaver_Süßmayr) the hyperlink will always be replaced by the default hyperlink "www.apple.com/de/". Is there a workaround?

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When inserting a hyperlink containing 'umlaute' (e.g. http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Xaver_Süßmayr) the hyperlink will always be replaced by the default hyperlink "www.apple.com/de/". Is there a workaround?

When trying to insert a hyperlink into a pages document (Version 5.5.2) which contains umlaute (e.g. to a webpage of the german wikipedia: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Xaver_Süßmayr) the hyperlink is not accepted by pages and replaced by the default hyperlink 'www.apple.com/de/'. Hyperlinks without 'umlaute' work fine. Is there any workaround for this?

best regards

Achim

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Yosemite (10.10.2)

Posted on Feb 17, 2015 7:08 AM

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Answer 1

VikingOSX

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Feb 17, 2015 8:24 AM in response to achimfromkoeln

For umlaut and szlig, you will need to use percent encoding and use the hex representation of these characters in your URL. Once you have your URL built in the link editor, either press return, or tab to the display name to set the URL.

Replacement:

ü with %fc
ß with %df

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Xaver_S%fc%dfmayr

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Answer 2

Feb 18, 2015 12:45 PM in response to VikingOSX

great, thanks for this work around, which solves my problem. It would be even better, if Pages would do this replacements for me.

Achim

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