Kévin Dunglas Founder of Les-Tilleuls.coop (worker-owned cooperative). Creator of API Platform, Mercure.rocks, Vulcain.rocks and of some Symfony components. Currently, PHP doesn’t have any native support of IDN: domains with non-ASCII characters such as http://www.académie-française.fr. If you try to connect to such site you’ll get nothing but an error: file_get_contents('http://académie-française