[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > An unescaped � is not valid in URLs, it should be encoded as %E9 > http://www.melbourne.net/antonr/r�sum�.html fails for me in IE5.5, but works > in NT4.7 > http://www.melbourne.net/antonr/r%E9sum%E9.html works in both. > > More details can be found in RFCs 1738 and 2396. > > In REBOL, (at least in REBOL/View 0.9.8.3.1) you must prevent the %E9 > encoding from being decoded too soon. A literal %E9 in a URL gets decoded > into � immediately; therefore in literal URLs you must escape the % by using > %25, or hide the url inside a string. > read http://www.melbourne.net/antonr/r%E9sum%E9.html doesn't work, but > read to-url "http://www.melbourne.net/antonr/r%E9sum%E9.html" does, and so > does > read http://www.melbourne.net/antonr/r%25E9sum%25E9.html. This looks pretty ugly to me. While it's nice to know that there's a workaround, IMHO REBOL should be taking care of this automatically when requesting URL's with special characters. Would someone like to file this as a bug report? -Jake
