Arabic Characters in URL

Question

I have created a website using DNN. The site has arabic characters in URL after the domain name. For example: http://www.example.com/اسعارالعملات.aspx.

My questions are:

1. Is this URL read by non Arabic supportive operating systems or browsers or will it give the user an error?
2. Is it good for SEO to have Arabic in URL or not?
3. Are there any other problems due to the use of Arabic characters?

Answer 1

Edit : To answer your question points directly.

[1] Yes they will work fine due to Internationalized Resource Identifiers.

[2] If you are targeting Arabic search results then yes having arabic in the url bar is good for SEO. I am sure Google does clever translation stuff tho as well.

[3] Copy pasting the URL will look funny due to [1] If you look at Arabic wikipedia and try copy paste their url somewhere you will see what I mean.

More information

I know Google does put some weight into what is in the url so for example having page-title.aspx will be better than pagetitle. I would imagine that the same rules apply for having foreign language urls - it will help increase results when people are searching for terms that are included in your arabic word.

Most browsers will deal with it fine I don't think you need to have a special language pack installed. Arabic Wikipedia works fine though the characters get mapped using Internationalized Resource Identifiers.

https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/15539/how-do-special-foreign-language-characters-in-an-url-work-and-are-they-fake

So will look fine in your url bar but will look like this http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B5%D9%81%D8%AD%D8%A9_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B1%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%A9 when copied.

I always liked how backspace and delete work the other way around with Arabic text.