German Umlaut in URL / filenames

#33391
  • Resolved Chrissi & Raf Millonigg

    5 years ago

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    This is about: Focus Keyword not found in the URL
    When using German Umlaut Characters.

    German Umlaut Ä,Ö,Ü and the special character ß in HTML are encoded as:
    Character HTML Entity HTML Unicode call
    ä ä #228;
    Ä Ä #196;
    ö ö #246;
    Ö Ö #214;
    ü ü #252;
    Ü Ü #220;
    ß ß #223;

    So in german we would not use the special Umlaut Characters in URLs (even filenames)

    Instead we use:
    Ä/ä = ae
    Ö/ö = oe
    Ü/ü = ue
    ß = ss or sz

    Example:
    The focus keyword is “Küche in Bali” then I would use the URL “kueche-in-bali”

    Previously I used Yoast SEO Pro, which did recognized this special characters.

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  • Michael Davis

    5 years ago

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    Hello,

    Thank you for contacting Rank Math and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.

    I have just tested this on my end but I could not reproduce any issues with detecting the focus keyword on the URL as shown below:
    Screenshot

    It is likely that the issue has something to do with your database encoding. Could you please test this out on a different site and check if you can still reproduce it?

    Looking forward to helping you. Thank you.

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    Kenny Lundback

    5 years ago

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    ÅÄÖ in Swedish is also not detected in the URL. It get automaticly changed from…
    Å / Ä = A
    Ö = O

    Todd

    5 years ago

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    Hi Kenny,

    That is normal but it should be detected by Rank Math.

    We will be taking a closer look.

    With that said, the score is there only for your reference anyway and doesn’t affect your actual rankings. Treat it only as a to-do list, nothing more. Don’t try to live by it and don’t follow the tests religiously.

    Kenny Lundback

    5 years ago

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    I know, i’m just helping you making the plugin better 🙂 Good plugin btw. I was using yoast but i see no real need for it any longer.

    Michael Davis

    5 years ago

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    Hi Kenny,

    Thank you for the feedback.

    We will dig deeper into this and get back to you 🙂

    Chrissi & Raf Millonigg

    5 years ago

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    Sure, it’s just a “nice to have”

    Todd

    5 years ago

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    Hi Chrissi,

    Absolutely 🙂

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