bug#1331: marked as done (browse-url problem with non-ascii in url string)

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Your message dated Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:35:18 -0500
with message-id <87fxlx9cuh.fsf@cyd.mit.edu>
and subject line Re: browse-url problem with non-ascii in url string
has caused the Emacs bug report #1331,
regarding browse-url problem with non-ascii in url string
to be marked as done.

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From: xah lee <xah@xahlee.org>
To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: browse-url problem with non-ascii in url string
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:41:21 -0800
Message-ID: <027D4F28-0C2F-42D9-BBF3-CF9EF3202836@xahlee.org>

it appears that browse-url have problems when the url contains non- 
ascii chars.

Examples:

(browse-url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/lycee")
(browse-url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/lycée")

when i eval the latter, it does nothing.

In GNU Emacs 22.2.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin8.11.0, Carbon Version 1.6.0)
  of 2008-04-05 on g5.tokyo.stp.isas.jaxa.jp
Windowing system distributor `Apple Inc.', version 10.4.11
configured using `configure  '--prefix=/Applications/Emacs.app/ 
Contents/Resources' '--with-carbon' '--without-x' '--libexecdir=/ 
Volumes/Emacs/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/libexec' 'CFLAGS=-Os -arch  
i386 -arch ppc -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk -DUSE_ATSUI - 
DUSE_MAC_TSM''

   Xah
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From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: xah lee <xah@xahlee.org>
Cc: 1331-done@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: Re: browse-url problem with non-ascii in url string
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:35:18 -0500
Message-ID: <87fxlx9cuh.fsf@cyd.mit.edu>

> it appears that browse-url have problems when the url contains non- 
> ascii chars.
>
> (browse-url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/lycee")
> (browse-url "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/lycée")
>
> when i eval the latter, it does nothing.
>
> In GNU Emacs 22.2.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin8.11.0, Carbon Version 1.6.0)

This appears to be fixed in Emacs 23.