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,+Cura%C3...

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,+Cura%C3...http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=Willemstad,+Cura%C3%A7ao&sensor=false&language=en') 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,+Cura%C3...http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=Willemstad,+Cura%C3%A7ao&sensor=false&language=en' asZnUrl *

And the result of this is:

http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=Willemstad,+Cura%C3... * * 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