download pdf from url which has unicode characters

[srikrishnan]

Hi all

I want to download pdf file from webaddress which has unicode characters. for e.g. "www.tamildeal.com/home/upload/pdf/வைத்திய%20அனுகூல%20ஜீவரட்சணி.pdf" use LWP::Simple; is not supporting such web addresses. is there any way?

Thanks in Advance, Srikrishnan

[ikegami]

Encode the characters using UTF-8 and url-encode the resulting bytes. URI::Escape's uri_escape_utf8 does this.

[srikrishnan]

Thanks for your response

90% your suggestion works. but still there are unwanted bytes which makes the url dead

[Corion]

Find out how the URL gets encoded and then use the encoded URL. Most likely, the characters get percent-encoded ( / becomes %2e etc.). Maybe you can write a Perl script using URI::Encode to do the proper encoding of the URL for you.

[vinoth.ree]

Hi srikrishnan

Use this URL, to fetch this PDF,

http://www.tamildeal.com/home/upload/pdf/%E0%AE%B5%E0%AF%88%E0%AE%A4%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%AF%20%E0%AE%85%E0%AE%A9%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%82%E0%AE%B2%20%E0%AE%9C%E0%AF%80%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%B0%E0%AE%9F%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%9A%E0%AE%A3%E0%AE%BF.pdf

I just pasted your URL in notepad and got this encoded URL and able to access your pdf, you try with your code and let us know.

[srikrishnan]

Thanks for your reply

yours url working well. Can you explain me the process? how you convert this encoded url? I have many links which i need to download