Why Internet Explorer doesn't url-encode the urls?

Question

I launch the IE (7th version) as follows:

\"C:\\Program Files\\Internet Explorer\\iexplore.exe\" \"http://somewhere.com/q=фыва\"

except tha

Answer 1

Unicode characters are forbidden in urls see

Unicode characters in URLs

% encode the unicode chars yourself to - http://somewhere.com/q=%D1%84%D1%8B%D0%B2%D0%B0

its probably removing them as a feature