On Wed, 9 Apr 2014, frank ernest wrote:

> I was reading about how, in atom feeds the URIs are not URLs but instead
> they are IRIs. If I threw an IRI at curl would it fetch the resource?

curl can handle IDN host names at least, if built with that suppport.

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