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Re:Ask HN: Why do Greek or Russian characters get URL encoded? on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @07:29PM (#28858807)
It’s to avoid malware domains and similar applications of various malfeasance. In short, because they can be used to obfuscate the actually intended url copied, such as fасеbook <— this has Cyrillic characters in it you can’t otherwise notice.