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Re: Curl and unicode file:// URLs on windows

From: Guenter <lists_at_gknw.net>
Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 04:02:42 +0200

Am 11.05.2010 03:54, schrieb Guenter:
> Hi Jonas,
> Am 11.05.2010 03:36, schrieb jonas echterhoff:
>> A customer of our product (which uses libcurl) ran into an issue with
>> file:// urls and unicode characters. It appears that when there are
>> any non-ascii characters in the url, curl will not retrieve the file.
>> Now, how does the url need to be encoded for this to work in curl? Or
>> can curl handle this at all? I have the feeling it could be necessary
>> for libcurl to use the _wopen() function internally instead of _open()
>> on windows. If so, is this the right place to submit a bug to get it
>> changed?
>>
>> Btw, on the mac, this just works, by passing the urls to curl in UTF-8
>> format. Ideally, we'd like windows to be the same.
> is it possible that your mac build uses libidn? Have you tried a win32
> build with libidn?
Forget about - I answered too quick and didnt realize the file:// schema :)

Gün.

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