Requesting URLs containing German umlauts

2012-08-16 Thread Pawel Krol
Hello! I would like to ask you for a little assistance with the following issue... There are websites, which contain special German characters in their URLs, for example: http://www.pbb-planungsbüro-bartsch.de (known as umlauts). I have been unsuccessfully trying to retrieve contents of such

Re: Requesting URLs containing German umlauts

2012-08-16 Thread Bill Moseley
On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 8:18 AM, Pawel Krol djgr...@gmail.com wrote: Hello! I would like to ask you for a little assistance with the following issue... There are websites, which contain special German characters in their URLs, for example:

Re: Requesting URLs containing German umlauts

2012-08-16 Thread Lawrence Statton
On 08/16/2012 10:18 AM, Pawel Krol wrote: Hello! I would like to ask you for a little assistance with the following issue... There are websites, which contain special German characters in their URLs, for example: http://www.pbb-planungsbüro-bartsch.de (known as umlauts). I have been

Re: Requesting URLs containing German umlauts

2012-08-16 Thread Mike Schilli
On Thu, 16 Aug 2012, Pawel Krol wrote: There are websites, which contain special German characters in their URLs, for example: http://www.pbb-planungsbüro-bartsch.de (known as umlauts). Your problem is not with libwww, but with perl and its requirement to say use utf8; if you're using

Re: Requesting URLs containing German umlauts

2012-08-16 Thread Lawrence Statton
Ignore nearly everything I wrote -- Well - it's all factual, and interesting, but as Bill led me to test and discover - if you have recent enough versions of the important bits, LWP::UserAgent will cope perfectly with IDNs . Mea culpa

Re: Requesting URLs containing German umlauts

2012-08-16 Thread Pawel Krol
2012/8/16 Lawrence Statton lawre...@cluon.com: Ignore nearly everything I wrote -- Well - it's all factual, and interesting, but as Bill led me to test and discover - if you have recent enough versions of the important bits, LWP::UserAgent will cope perfectly with IDNs . Mea culpa Thank