MATLAB: Urlread / urlwrite with umlaut in the url – is there a way to get this to work

Question

Dear all,

I am trying to read a url that contains german umlauts. This does, apparently, not work with urlread/urlwrite. An example:

urlread('http://www.möbel.de')

produces an error, whereas:

urlread('http://www.moebel.de')

works. Both urls link to the same webpage in this example, btw.

Is there a way to get this to work? In my case, I can not just replace the umlaut (ä -> ae, ö -> oe, ü -> ue), since then the url can not be resolved.

Thanks!

Bjoern

Answer 1

HI,

you need to punnycode the name. Try

urlread(char(java.net.IDN.toASCII('http://www.möbel.de')))