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Q: Bug trying to create link with cyrillic characters in URL

I am trying to turn words in my text into links, but with cyrillic characters in their URL's (like https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/хорошо). The problem is that, depending on how I create the link, Pages refuses to accept the URL.

 

This is my preferred method (which Pages does not accept):

  1. Write or select the written text to be turned into link;
  2. Hit cmd+k;
  3. Paste URL (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/хорошо) into field;
  4. Hit enter and/or click out;
  5. When I check the link, it is www.apple.com.

 

The weird is that other methods do work out fine.

 

Unnatural 1 (Pages accepts):

  1. Delete my word;
  2. In its place, paste URL (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/хорошо);
  3. Hit spacebar (a link is automatically created with the correct URL);
  4. Edit the link created and change its display text;
  5. When I check the link, it kept correct.

 

Unnatural 2 (Pages accepts):

  1. Write or select the written text to be turned into link;
  2. Hit cmd+k;
  3. Find a way to build an escaped version of my URL (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D1%85%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%88%D0%BE);
  4. Paste the escaped URL into the link field;
  5. Hit enter and/or click out;
  6. When I check the link, ironically, it is https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/хорошо.

 

To stretch further:

  1. Edited a link successfully created (with any of the successful methods above);
  2. Changed its URL (from https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/хорошо to https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/плохо)
  3. Hit enter and/or click out;
  4. When I check the link, it is still https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/хорошо;
  5. Finally edited and changed its URL again, now removing the cyrillic part (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki);
  6. Hit enter, click out, and it finally accepted the URL.

 

Pages seems to be denying the creation of links with URL's containing cyrillic (only?) characters, but exclusively through its little link creation popup. I think it is a simple problem, but I am quite sure it is very annoying.

 

Anyone experiencing the same?

MacBook Air (13-inch, Early 2015), OS X El Capitan (10.11.6), Pages version 5.6.2

Posted on Sep 9, 2016 6:19 PM

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