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diff --git a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_URL.3 b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_URL.3 index 3f88c94b7..79e066016 100644 --- a/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_URL.3 +++ b/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_URL.3 @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ .\" * | (__| |_| | _ <| |___ .\" * \___|\___/|_| \_\_____| .\" * -.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2016, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. +.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2018, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. .\" * .\" * This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which .\" * you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms @@ -286,6 +286,16 @@ escape it by providing it as backslash and its ASCII value in hexadecimal: The application does not have to keep the string around after setting this option. +.SH ENCODING +The string pointed to in the \fICURLOPT_URL(3)\fP argument is generally +expected to be a sequence of characters using an ASCII compatible encoding. + +If libcurl is built with IDN support, the server name part of the URL can use +an "international name" by using the current encoding (according to locale) or +UTF-8 (when winidn is used). + +If libcurl is built without IDN support, the server name is used exactly as +specified when passed to the name resolver functions. .SH DEFAULT There is no default URL. If this option isn't set, no transfer can be performed. |