Are extended ASCII chars [äöå] allowed in URLs?

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I have seen some websites that use äöå-characters in their slugs (they don't convert them to aoo). So what's the case?

Andreas Rejbrand · Answer 1 · 2010-08-14T00:08:12.620

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Åå (as in affOrd), Ää (as in Air), and Öö (as in gIrl) are our lovely Swedish additions to the latin alphabet. Nowadays, these can even be used in domain names (at least under the .SE top-level domain). See, for instance, http://www.linköping.se. Of course, this is an example of an IDN.

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answered Aug 14 '10 at 00:02

Andreas Rejbrand

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Btw: Markdown really doesn't like IDNs. – Andreas Rejbrand Aug 14 '10 at 00:04
Those were not good examples. 'Å' is more like the 'o' in *afford* [affård]. 'Ä' is like 'ai' in *air* [är]. 'Ö' is like 'i' in *girl* [görl]. – Gert Grenander Aug 14 '10 at 00:08
@Gert G: You are probably right! I had a hard time finding good examples! – Andreas Rejbrand Aug 14 '10 at 00:09

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:27

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Yes, they are!

But see here: Should I use accented characters in URLs?

edited May 23 '17 at 10:27

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answered Aug 13 '10 at 23:53

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Are extended ASCII chars [äöå] allowed in URLs?

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