Why does Moz see short Russian & Chinese urls as too long

[mariedetitomount]

We are translating content into Russian and Chinese on our website, the number of errors are increasing mainly around URL too long, each time we create  a page with a Chinese or Russian url.

If you click on the link below for a Chinese content page:

https://www.westbourneschool.com/zh-hans/%E5%AE%BF%E8%88%8D%E5%8F%8A%E5%AF%84%E5%AE%BF%E5%AE%B6%E5%BA%AD/%E5%AE%BF%E8%88%8D%E7%94%9F%E6%B4%BB

You will notice the url displayed by the browser is actually not very long, is there a way for MOZ not to see it as it appears above?

Below is a page in Russian

https://www.westbourneschool.com/ru/%D0%A8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0%20%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5

Any help will be much appreciated.

[effectdigital]

Basically I don't think Moz records enriched URL names, because their database and / or CSV output is incapable of storing rich characters (e.g: in UTF-8 you have Latin and Greek characters, but with super basic txt sub-formats like ANSI you do not). As such Moz is forced to 'convert' the URLs to utilise URL encoding: https://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_urlencode.asp - whereby a combination of 'allowed' symbols creates the special characters in your browser window (once a link is visited)

In reality it would be better if Moz would just update their tools to support special characters as they see a lot of common usage in URL strings these days, particularly in Western / Eastern Europe (and beyond)

Unless Moz were to update their tool I think you'd just have to 'manually ignore' those errors or recalculate the 'real' values yourself in a spreadsheet