stumbleupon badges and spanish characters
Question
using the stumbleupon badge code for a url like
http://www.test.com/¿cómo_se_dice
with the following snippet
<script src="http://www.stumbleupon.com/hostedbadge.php?s=2&r=http://www.test.com/¿cómo_se_dice"></script>
it will recognize the url as http://www.test.com/cmo_se_dice
and remove the spanish characters.
is there a special way to treat the url before adding it to the snippet?
Solution
Stumbleupon are actually doing it right.
This
http://www.test.com/¿cómo_se_dice
is not a valid URL.
You would need to either percent-encode the URL before passing it through to the badge, or remove the special character.
Percent-encoding would result in this:
There's an online converter to play around with here.
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