X-Git-Url: http://source.jalview.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=src%2Fjalview%2Fappletgui%2FAlignFrame.java;h=f3fdd67a2afa4a01b50d9d7397e23d79b2e9b2ac;hb=8946f41687f4c822ac8d15ee8551f23f156735c4;hp=2cf33acc666face95b718797a67974eafdf8ed52;hpb=f27f7be4c32780de615e2678f11a5e80702c5e25;p=jalview.git

diff --git a/src/jalview/appletgui/AlignFrame.java b/src/jalview/appletgui/AlignFrame.java
index 2cf33ac..f3fdd67 100644
--- a/src/jalview/appletgui/AlignFrame.java
+++ b/src/jalview/appletgui/AlignFrame.java
@@ -106,6 +106,7 @@ import java.awt.event.KeyListener;
 import java.awt.event.WindowAdapter;
 import java.awt.event.WindowEvent;
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
 import java.net.URL;
 import java.net.URLEncoder;
 import java.util.Arrays;
@@ -1569,7 +1570,7 @@ public class AlignFrame extends EmbmenuFrame implements ActionListener,
     try
     {
       new URL(url);
-      url = URLEncoder.encode(url);
+      url = URLEncoder.encode(url, "UTF-8");
     }
     /*
      * When we finally deprecate 1.1 compatibility, we can start to use
@@ -1582,6 +1583,13 @@ public class AlignFrame extends EmbmenuFrame implements ActionListener,
     {
       url = viewport.applet.getCodeBase() + url;
     }
+    catch (UnsupportedEncodingException ex)
+    {
+      System.err.println(
+              "WARNING = IMPLEMENTATION ERROR - UNSUPPORTED ENCODING EXCEPTION FOR "
+                      + url);
+      ex.printStackTrace();
+    }
     return url;
   }