400 Bad request with curl php - php

Question

to scrape data from other site or API I am using below code but problem is that when URL has other languages font than its getting error. it's not a problem when URL having the English language
$url='https://techblogs.site/अगर-हम-इन-7-फीचर्स-को-2019-में-पा/';
function ftch($url,$post="", $ck = 'cookie.dat')
{
$ver = rand(4, 6);
$agent = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 4.4.2; Nexus 4 Build/KOT49H) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/34.0.1847.114 Mobile Safari/537.36';
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, '' . $url . '');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $agent);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIESESSION, 'cookie.s');
//curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXY, $proxyIP);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $ck);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $ck);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $post);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT,2);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT,2);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
'Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.7,de-de;q=0.3',
'Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5'
));
$content = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
return $content;
}
$content=ftch($url);
echo $content;

Answer 1

You should be able to encode the URL (the parts that are not UTF-8) and that will allow the connection to get through.
<?php
$url = 'https://techblogs.site/'.urlencode("अगर-हम-इन-7-फीचर्स-को-2019-में-पा");