From: Carlos Date: 2007-01-17T08:51:17+09:00 Subject: Re: Alternate URI escaping mechanisms? Carlos wrote: >> URI#escape escapes to UTF-8. I need to escape to Latin-1 for Amazon's [...] > URI#escape escapes to UTF-8 because your string is UTF-8-encoded. Use [...] > and then apply URI#escape. Correction: it's not URI#escape but URI.escape. --