How to specify Cyrillic links in sitemap.xml?

Question

Create a sitemap

In what form is it possible and better to indicate Cyrillic links in the sitemap for robots?
Will there be a difference? (see below)

https://site.ru/word/%D1%87%D1%82%D0%BE%20%D0%B5%D...
https://site.ru/word/what if

Please share your experience.

Answer 1

Use punycode! Fortunately, there are a lot of ready-made services, for example .
As an alternative, you can use a service to generate a sitemap ( for example ), where the translation of Cyrillic characters is done automatically (but still using punycode).
True, a snag may arise here, such services in the free version provide the ability to generate a sitemap for a certain number of pages (500-1000-2000), then they ask you to bring in the dough.