Posted by John Dunlop on 11/29/42 11:27

Markus Ernst wrote:

> 2. Is there a better way to encode strings for URLs?

Arguably. Another way is to take your character, encode it as
UTF-8 octets, and percent-encode that encoding. This is the mapping
of IRIs to URIs described in RFC3987. Take <é> (U+00E9). Encoded as
UTF-8 then percent-encoded, you get %C3%A9 (not %E9).

http://host.invalid/caf%C3%A9

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Jock

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