On 6/13/2012 1:17 AM, John Nagle wrote: > What does "urllib2" want? Percent escapes? Punycode? Looks like Punycode is the correct answer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name#ToASCII_and_ToUnicode I haven't tried it, though. -- CPython 3.3.0a3 | Windows NT 6.1.7601.17790