Re: Accents in URLs

Tim Hill <tim@timil.com> wrote:

>
>Just came across this URL which opens in 'other' browsers but not in RISC
>OS NetSurf here. Okay, I'll admit to using an old version (3.1 #1298)
>but no doubt I'll be told if later versions do cope. ;-)
>
>http://dahlström.net/svg/favicon/favicon.html
>
>(which StronEd doesn't but Pluto translates to
>http://dahlstr%F6m.net/svg/favicon/favicon.html)

That looks right, but

>http://dahlstr&ouml;m.net/svg/favicon/favicon.html
>and this
>http://dahlstr&#246;m.net/svg/favicon/favicon.html

those should not work; the "&xxx;" things are valid inside HTML whereas
inside a URL you need to follow the rules for encoding funny characters in
URLs, ie the %xx values.

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