GSC is not showing URLs in Regional Language Characters in Search Analytics

[Starcom_Search]

Hi,

We have a regional language sub-domain, which has the URI in the regional language characters (Hindi). While looking at the Search Analytics data in GSC, we get all the URLs in ASCII format. To resolve this issue, we even encoded the characters in UTF-8, by adding the following in the of the page:

However, we are still getting illegible URLs in search console. It would be really great if someone could help me out with this issue.

Thanks!

[katemorris]

Quick question: What language preference is your browser set to? What about the settings of the Google account you use?

Is your site performing well otherwise? Meaning is this just an issue with Search Console?

[Starcom_Search]

Hey Kate!

Thanks for your reply, however, if even I add Hindi in the browser preference language, the URL when seen in GSC are just characters. And yes, the website is performing well, the ranks and traffic are doing well, however, for analysis purposes, so as to understand which pages are to be targeted, it becomes a humongous task since will have to open each and every URL in GSC and understand the statistics. Hence wanted to understand how can we get the Hindi URLs in Hindi Characters in GSC data, and not in ASCII Characters!

[katemorris]

I personally have not seen this before, but that is due to being English speaking only. I don't see much else on the web about it either which lead me to wonder if it was due to account settings for some reason. I'll flag this up as a discussion, see if we can find someone that has dealt with this before.