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MissyQ
Former Employee
Aug 19, 2020

Announcing a new way to paste URLs, Link format!

Recently, we wanted to dig into how users feel about copying and pasting a URL from their browser. We looked to understand what they do when they copy and paste URLs, as well as the pain points they ...
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rshupak
Iron Contributor
Aug 20, 2020

JaredB81 Will there be an option to copy non-ASCII URLs as displayed in the address bar instead of URL encoded?  For example, https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%81%D8%AA_%D8%A5%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%AC vs. https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/مايكروسوفت_إيدج.  The former is unreadable while the latter is not, assuming you know the language.

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JaredB81
Former Employee
Aug 20, 2020

Thanks, rshupak.  Good question!  In our research, we actually looked at this (and other URL param parsing/culling options).  We found that most people had some concerns about the URL content being manipulated.  Though we haven't ruled it out as a possibility, it's not our initial focus. 

Your feedback is exactly the kind of thing we're looking for, to help make the case to explore that line of improvement and simplification.  If we see enough interest in this from this Insider forum, from the feedback tool within Edge, etc. we will definitely consider it.

 

Thanks again for the feedback! 

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    pmbrid
    Copper Contributor
    May 26, 2022

    JaredB81 

    I see this works in Edge - please can you make it available in the Teams Desktop App as it doesnt seem to have this feature, just plain paste which translates to a short name rather than full URL meaning our users cannot use the link to access the site.

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