Is it advisable to have non-ascii characters in the URL?

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Published on 2011-01-13T17:23:14Z Indexed on 2011/01/13 17:53 UTC
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We are currently working on a I18N project. I was just wondering what are the complications of having the non-ascii characters in the URL. If its not, what are the alternatives to deal with this problem?

EDIT (in response to Maxym's answer): The site is going to be local to specific country and I need not worry about the world wide public accessing this site. I understand that from usability point of view, It is really annoying. What are the other technical problem associated with this?

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