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When John Smithers edited this post, I noticed that it works if you escape the unicode character. So http://linus.unnebäck.se actually works. The markdown source for this is http://linus.unnebäck.se. It's still just a workaround, but better than those xn--bla-xyz things.

Since SO takes a whitelisting approach to characters in links, I suspect there won't be a change anytime soon; especially since Jeff is notorious for talking about "crazy moon language" for umlauts et al. But I agree it would be nice.

Epilogue: Seven weeks after I wrote this, Jeff hired me – and it only took me a little over five years to make good on the "it would be nice" thing. And umlauts and ASCII characters lived together in harmony and happily ever after.

When John Smithers edited this post, I noticed that it works if you escape the unicode character. So http://linus.unnebäck.se actually works. The markdown source for this is http://linus.unnebäck.se. It's still just a workaround, but better than those xn--bla-xyz things.

Since SO takes a whitelisting approach to characters in links, I suspect there won't be a change anytime soon; especially since Jeff is notorious for talking about "crazy moon language" for umlauts et al. But I agree it would be nice.

Epilogue: Seven weeks after I wrote this, Jeff hired me – and it only took me a little over five years to make good on the "it would be nice" thing. And umlauts and ASCII characters lived together in harmony and happily ever after.

When John Smithers edited this post, I noticed that it works if you escape the unicode character. So http://linus.unnebäck.se actually works. The markdown source for this is http://linus.unnebäck.se. It's still just a workaround, but better than those xn--bla-xyz things.

Since SO takes a whitelisting approach to characters in links, I suspect there won't be a change anytime soon; especially since Jeff is notorious for talking about "crazy moon language" for umlauts et al. But I agree it would be nice.

Epilogue: Three weeks after I wrote this, Jeff hired me – and it only took me a little over five years to make good on the "it would be nice" thing. And umlauts and ASCII characters lived together in harmony and happily ever after.

When John Smithers edited this post, I noticed that it works if you escape the unicode character. So http://linus.unnebäck.se actually works. The markdown source for this is http://linus.unnebäck.se. It's still just a workaround, but better than those xn--bla-xyz things.

Since SO takes a whitelisting approach to characters in links, I suspect there won't be a change anytime soon; especially since Jeff is notorious for talking about "crazy moon language" for umlauts et al. But I agree it would be nice.

Epilogue: Seven weeks after I wrote this, Jeff hired me – and it only took me a little over five years to make good on the "it would be nice" thing. And umlauts and ASCII characters lived together in harmony and happily ever after.

When John Smithers edited this post, I noticed that it works if you escape the unicode character. So http://linus.unnebäck.se actually works. The markdown source for this is http://linus.unnebäck.se. It's still just a workaround, but better than those xn--bla-xyz things.

Since SO takes a whitelisting approach to characters in links, I suspect there won't be a change anytime soon; especially since Jeff is notorious for talking about "crazy moon language" for umlauts et al. But I agree it would be nice.

When John Smithers edited this post, I noticed that it works if you escape the unicode character. So http://linus.unnebäck.se actually works. The markdown source for this is http://linus.unnebäck.se. It's still just a workaround, but better than those xn--bla-xyz things.

Since SO takes a whitelisting approach to characters in links, I suspect there won't be a change anytime soon; especially since Jeff is notorious for talking about "crazy moon language" for umlauts et al. But I agree it would be nice.

Epilogue: Three weeks after I wrote this, Jeff hired me – and it only took me a little over five years to make good on the "it would be nice" thing. And umlauts and ASCII characters lived together in harmony and happily ever after.