Parsing url with unicode characters

[khavishbhundoo]

Trying to feed https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Нью-Йорк_(штат) to ext-http as follows:

$url = new \http\Url($request->url);

I am getting the following error

http\Url::__construct(): Failed to parse path; unexpected byte 0xd0 at pos 6 in '/wiki/Нью-Йорк_(штат)'

Should the library be able handle this or should i do some preprocessing to support accented characters in url.I noticed that if i urlencode the whole url the resulting url from $url->toString() is malformed

[khavishbhundoo]

I found a solution , it should have been

$url = new \http\Url($request->url, null, \http\Url::PARSE_MBUTF8);

@m6w6 what other flags would you suggests so that i support the widest range of urls.I feed those urls to curl later for download

[m6w6]

I think STDFLAGS is including pretty much already, maybe add IGNORE_ERRORS if you're brave.