Accented characters in URL/URI ?

[ktp]

Hello,

There is a Message id 2003031702:
"Using unencoded space characters in URLs may cause problems. If space characters must be used in URLs then they should be encoded as "%20" (without the quotes). However, avoid spaces in URLs whenever possible and consider using the underscore (_) or hyphen (-) character instead of space characters in folder names and filenames."

Does CSS HTML Validator also check for accented characters in URL/URI ?
According to RFC 3986 : https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt ,
URI's are restricted to a subset of ASCII characters.

I have several URI with accented characters and I would like to spot them out using CSS HTML Validator/Batch Wizard.

Thank you for your support.

[Albert Wiersch]

Hello,

Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I will see if I can address/improve this for the next update.

[ktp]

I made a quick test with URI containing some special characters, and following is the result:

- Left/right parenthesis, left/right bracket, left/right square bracket "( ), { }, [ ]" : bad link with "Can't compute abs path". OK.
- space : Warning with Message id 2003031702. OK.
- single quote : currently no warning => need to be addressed.
- accented characters : currently no warning => need to be addressed.

[ktp]

Hello,

Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I will see if I can address/improve this for the next update.

In the meantime, wating for next update, I found that thanks to Batch Wizard report,
in the list of processed documents, the links with accented characers can be found
by searching the "%" string.

This is because Batch Wizard replaces the accented characters with 2-byte coded in hex as %XX%YY.
For example, "é" = "e acute" = "HTML5 é" is replaced with %C3%A9.