[Alpine-info] URL detection doesn't think accented characters are part of the URL

Andreas Schamanek schamane at fam.tuwien.ac.at
Thu Mar 3 11:57:59 PST 2011




> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomato_purée

> and alpine's built in URL detection only selects

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomato_pur


I recommend to always properly encode URIs:
E.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomato_pur%C3%A9e

Everything else is likely to cause problems here or elsewhere.

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-- Andreas




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