From: tamouse mailing lists <tamouse.lists@...>
Date: 2013-01-06T20:07:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Open-uri with non-ascii character

On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 9:03 PM, Soichi Ishida <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> http://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUnihanData.pl?codepoint=儿
> the url contains non-ascii character as a query.  In this particular
> case, it's Chinese.

Interestingly enough, if you look at what gets sent through as the
link above, it's:

http://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUnihanData.pl?codepoint=%E5%84%BF

which is also what you'd obtain via:

URI.escape("http://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUnihanData.pl?codepoint=儿")