Heroku + Node.js: How to use urls with umlauts?

Question

I have got a Node.js application which uses umlauts in some of its urls. When I run node.js locally, everything works fine.

Now I want to deploy this application to Heroku. Running Heroku's foreman locally works fine as well, but once I deploy and try to access any of the umlaut urls, I get an "500 Internal server error".

Does Heroku support umlauts in urls when running Node.js? If so, any idea what I might be doing wrong?

Problem solved (or worked around ;-)), by simply avoiding umlauts. — Golo Roden
– Golo Roden, Commented Aug 25, 2012 at 5:04

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:20:11Z

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To use umlauts (or other special characters) you need to "url-encode" or "percent encode" the characters so they can be used properly in URLs. In your case the umlauts could be substituted with the code %d6 (see this chart), but you may be more interested in the javascript function encodeURIComponent, which will let you encode things programatically. See also this answer.

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answered Sep 5, 2012 at 2:57

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