On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 12:52 PM, Petite Abeille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> It depends on the Web server being able to handle it, but yes, you >> can have non-ISO-8859-1 characters in a URL. > > Hmmm... are you sure? I thought one would need to encode anything but > a small subset of US-ASCII: As a simple test, I create a file called "Chrétien.txt" which I drop into a Tomcat web server to view as "http://localhost/sample/Chrétien.txt";. Firefox 2 turns this into: http://localhost/sample/Chr%C3%A9tien.txt while Safari requests http://localhost/sample/Chrétien.txt But the main thing is that, regardless, the non-US-ASCII name is used to match the resource in the file system. -- Hassan Schroeder ------------------------ [EMAIL PROTECTED] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
