Sean The trick is to url encode the bit that contains the accented characters. In your case, try: ('https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/','prêt#French' urlEncoded ) asUrl
If you use urlEncoded on the whole string, the encoded slashes seem to confuse things. HTH Peter Kenny -----Original Message----- From: Pharo-users [mailto:pharo-users-boun...@lists.pharo.org] On Behalf Of Sean P. DeNigris Sent: 07 December 2017 14:49 To: pharo-users@lists.pharo.org Subject: [Pharo-users] ZnUrls with Non-ASCII characters 'https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/prêt#French' asUrl ==> ZnCharacterEncodingError: ASCII character expected. Ideas? ----- Cheers, Sean -- Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html