I have a URL with special characters, example:
$url = 'https://example.com/c/ファンタシ.jpg';
I can't validate it with:
var_dump( (filter_var($url, FILTER_VALIDATE_URL)) );
Because it isn't a valid URL according to the RFC:
"Only alphanumerics [0-9a-zA-Z], the special characters "$-_.+!*'()," [not including the quotes - ed], and reserved characters used for their reserved purposes may be used unencoded within a URL"
And I can't do:
urlencode($url);
Because that will encode the entire string with encoded slashes, colon etc.
So how do I encode the $url properly so it passed the validation?