Any unicode character should trigger this (including emojis). However, the problem only seems to occur for me if I try to open the link in a new tab or window. If I open a thread directly in my notifications or one of the categories pages it loads as normal.
Yup, it only happens if you try to open threads in new tabs / windows, or if you try to refresh existing ones. If you just follow URLs by left-clicking it works fine.
I just noticed they fixed the redirection issue with Kanji in the URL. The fix is quite simple (as far as I noticed up to now)… They simply remove the kanji from the URL itself.
Though I wonder what effect this will present if two URL somehow have the same title with only a different kanji
like
花 appreciation thread
and
字 appreciation thread
wouldnt both be /t/appreciation-thread ?
Anyway, Im glad it is fixed now
edit: actually its not only Kanji, but special characters
Not really a fix… More like we had to disable unicode slugging for the time being until a fix is in place. We’ll reimplement unicode in slugs once a fix is in place.
Topics have a unique ID, so slug conflicts aren’t an issue.