Hi all, I stumpled upon a problem with encoding of URLs in Pharo. I am using the Google Geocoding API. For example I want to get the result of: http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=Willemstad,+Curaça… When one enters this in a Browser a correct JSON response is returned. If I do the following: *(Url absoluteFromText: ' http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=Willemstad,+Curaça…) retrieveContents contents.* I get an error back grom Google. When digging through the code I found that in ZnHTTPSocketFacade the following happens: *' http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=Willemstad,+Curaça… asZnUrl * And the result of this is: http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=Willemstad,+Cura%C… * * Which Google does not know how to handle and then returns an error. Does anyone have an idea how I could get contents from a URL which has special chars like '*ç'?* Or is there a way to convert all special chars to to their 'normal' counterparts, like *ç -> c?* * * Cheers, Dennis