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[Jeremy Mikola]

Modern browsers shouldn't really have trouble unicode characters in URL's.
I recall seeing a few single-character domain names a while back after
unicode became available for registration.
Punycode<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode>is typically employed
when displaying hostnames - I believe this is most
practically a security measure for avoiding fishing scams with domain names
that may look similar.

But to your point, it sounds like you need transliteration. The PHP iconv
extension supports this natively:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3542717/how-to-transliterate-accented-characters-into-plain-ascii-characters


On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 4:33 PM, Peter Sawczynec <ps at blu-studio.com> wrote:

>  *From:* talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org [mailto:talk-bounces at lists.nyphp.org]
> *On Behalf Of *Chris Snyder
> *Sent:* Thursday, November 10, 2011 4:16 PM
> *To:* NYPHP Talk
> *Subject:* Re: [nycphp-talk] PHP UTF8 Conversion to ASCII****
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> On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Peter Sawczynec <ps at blu-studio.com>
> wrote:****
>
> Recently came across the issue where utf8 characters were getting
> outputted into links like so:****
>
> http://example.com/ãcenar [<< where the "a" is a special character],
> which a browser can turn to links like so: ****
>
> http://example.com/ã�cenar ****
>
>  ****
>
> In researching, I have found that browsers do not handle special utf8
> characters in urls very well.****
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> Seems like this is exactly what urlencode() is for, no? ****
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> *[Peter Sawczynec] *
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> * *
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> *My impression was that urlencode translated chars that cannot pass in an
> URL into entities that can. But those new entities are now  gibberish to
> the human eye. *
>
> *My end reuslt needed is creating user-friendly, clean, attractive urls
> from utf8 that will render as human-readable characteres in the browser
> address bar.*
>
> *And that browsers will not choke on the link when a user clicks it in
> web page. *
>
> *Are you saying that an urlencoded link will be clickable in a web page
> and render human-readable in the browser address bar too?*
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