From: Matthew Smillie <M.B.Smillie@...>
Date: 2006-07-07T18:11:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Danish Characters in Ruby Uri

On Jul 7, 2006, at 9:15, Paul Battley wrote:

> On 07/07/06, Steve Callaway <sjc2000_uk@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> ah cool, thanks very much, that looks a much sweeter
>> fix :)
>
> It's not so much a fix as the right way to do it. '�' isn't an allowed
> character in URLs:
>
> http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt
>
> 'Thus, only alphanumerics, the special characters "$-_.+!*'(),", and
> reserved characters used for their reserved purposes may be used
> unencoded within a URL.'

While this doesn't quite apply to the original question, does Ruby  
perhaps need to add support for IDNA?

matthew smillie.