Page names with special characters to generate regular URL

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    • Type: Suggestion
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • 9.1.0
    • Component/s: Editor - Page / Comment Editor
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      NOTE: This suggestion is for Confluence Server. Using Confluence Cloud? See the corresponding suggestion.

      Atlassian Update – 30 July 2024

      Hi everyone,

      We're happy to share that we're working on support for languages and special characters in page URLs. 

      Users will soon be able to access pages and blog posts using a more intuitive URL that includes the space key, pageId and page title. This new URL format also supports page titles that contain non-latin or special characters. Even better, references to URLs in the previous format like bookmarks won't break, but will automatically redirect the user to the new URL. 

      New URL format example:

      https://confluence.example.com/spaces/SPACEKEY/pages/pageId/Page+Title

      This change will be released soon. Please look out for it in the Confluence Release Notes, and continue to watch this ticket for further updates.

      Kind regards,

      Jacqueline Bietz

      Product Manager

      Confluence Data Center

      Hi,

      When including different characters in page names - like %, &, +, etc., the URL is generated differently.

      A usual URL (including the page name) looks like this: http://www.gigaspaces.com/wiki/display/GS6/Welcome+to+GigaSpaces

      BUT if you add a character in the page name (for example, naming a page, C++), the URL would look like this: http://www.gigaspaces.com/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=36864161

      which is less nice-looking to say the least, and also then all URLs in the wiki aren't standard.

      Is it possible to change this?

      If it's been fixed in a future version, I'll be glad to know.

      Thanks,
      Limor

      Suggestion to avoid displaying the page ID in URL (Tested and verified in Confluence 6.5.1)

      • Avoid using these special characters + % ? / \ & ; in any page title/name
      • Avoid ending a page title/name with any special characters.
        • Example of ending a page title/name with special characters:
        • Example of ending a page title/name without special characters:

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            Assignee:
            Jacqueline Bietz
            Reporter:
            Limor Maayan
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