Language API, RESTful, how to encode German Umlaut in URL

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Vichet

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Sep 20, 2009, 5:53:31 PM9/20/09

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Hi,

I used the following URL to translate the German word "Tag" into
English successfully.

http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/language/translate?v=1.0&q=Tag&langpair=de|en

But when I want to translate the German word "Bär" or other words
which have umlaut characters like ä, or ö, or ü, it failed.

Can anyone suggest how to escepe these German umlaut characters in
URL.

Thanks,
Vichet

Vichet

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Sep 22, 2009, 5:27:10 PM9/22/09

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I found the following encoding worked well.

ä %C3%A4
ö %C3%B6
ü %C3%BC
Ä %C3%84
Ö %C3%96
Ü %C3%9C
ß %C3%9F

On Sep 20, 11:53 pm, Vichet <mr.vic...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I used the following URL to translate the German word "Tag" into
> English successfully.
>