i once tried the unicode urls and they are a pain in the a§§ because some browser (and mail clients) interpret them differently. Also some search engines and/or

i once tried the unicode urls and they are a pain in the a§§ because some browser (and mail clients) interpret them differently. Also some search engines and/or crawlers interpret them different (mostly they are double encoded). This in turn results in several "errors" that the developer then has to re- en/decode again server side to serve the correct content to url. On the other side: Just "transliterate" a url is super simple and people all over the world can at least read the url (and probably memorise). For example: ä => ae => everybody in Germany knows how to read and interpret this. SEO wise: No difference at all.