Pass UTF8 URI to Webbrowser

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi monks

From my application on Windows I lunch a Webbrowser with a specific URI with the following

openURI{
my $query="hallo"; # Note, $query is utf8 encoded
my $url="http://" . ".webpage.cc/?s=" . $query;
    my $commandline = qq{start "$url" "$url"};
    system($commandline) == 0
        or die qq{Couldn't launch '$commandline': $!/$?};
}
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This works perfectly execpt if $query contains letters such as "äüö". In this case the Webbrowser is opened with a URL containing wrong characters instead of "äüö". The problem is of course with the encodings. Unfortunately I do not have any idea how can I pass the URI properly to the Webbrowser. Any suggestion?

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Re: Pass UTF8 URI to Webbrowser by Anonymous Monk on Mar 17, 2016 at 11:41 UTC
Just add the following and it works: `use URI::Escape; $query =uri_escape_utf8( $query );` [download]	[reply] [d/l]