Hi,

is anyone aware of recent changes in the html geocoder? I'm almost
sure I used this URL in a demonstration 2 months ago, now it gives
status 400 (bad request):

http://maps.google.com/maps/geo?q=germany,M%FCnchen,Marienplatz&output=xml&sensor=false

I get

[...]<Response>
<name>M�nchen,Marienplatz</name>[...]

The reason is obviously the city name. The ü in München is encoded (by
Firefox 3.5.6 and IE 7) to %FC and somehow decoded wrong on the Google
end (I guess).

This example does not work either using pure API calls to Google on
Windows XP.

Same with other german cities. Searching for "Cologne", however,
delivers a fine "Köln" to me.

Playing around with &ie=iso-8859-1 or utf8 and &oe= doesn't change
anything.

So: how should one encode the request?

Thanks for your time

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