to support url with unicode characters

[kleisauke]

to support url with unicode characters [4033438]

Submitted by Simon Lock on 6-6-2013 0:00:00
1 votes on UserVoice prior to migration

Response

by Andries Louw Wolthuizen on 11-10-2013 0:00:00

Added basic support for unicode characters: http://images.weserv.nl/?url=upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Piktogramm_Verbot_%DF.svg/500px-Piktogramm_Verbot_%DF.svg.png
Or copy-paste this to the browser:
http://images.weserv.nl/?url=upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Piktogramm_Verbot_ß.svg/500px-Piktogramm_Verbot_ß.svg.png
IDN-domains are (mostly) supported:
http://images.weserv.nl/?url=realacademiaespañola.es/images/escRAE2.jpg&h=250
IDN-TLD’s cannot be implemented at this moment ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name#Top-level_domain_implementation ).
I’d like to know if this is what you want, please give me info about URL’s that dont work.

Comments

Comment by Simon Lock on 10-6-2013 15:49:00

Here is a testing photo:
http://images.weserv.nl/?url=www.almega.com.hk/testing/%E6%B8%AC%E8%A9%A6%E5%9C%96%E7%89%87.jpg

Comment by Andries Louw Wolthuizen (Webmaster, Images.weserv.nl - Image cache & resize proxy) on 10-6-2013 17:33:00

Thanks for the URL, I tried a few things, and it seems cURL (external library this proxy uses for image fetching) is failing. The script will now parse the URL correctly, now I only need some way to retrieve it properly.
This needs some time to fix, thanks for the patience!

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