diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 23ffa60..c1bd9cf 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+## [2.1.1] - 2024-01-31
+### Fixed
+- An issue in the Validator, when trying to validate an absolute input URL that contains non ASCII characters.
+
 ## [2.1.0] - 2023-10-21
 ### Added
 - Method `toPsr7()` to conveniently get a PSR-7 compatible instance from an `Url` instance. Basically wrapper for `new Uri($urlInstance)`.
diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
index 152e00c..81fc620 100644
--- a/LICENSE
+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Copyright (c) 2023 Christian Olear
+Copyright (c) 2024 Christian Olear
 
 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
 a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
diff --git a/src/Validator.php b/src/Validator.php
index 1f08583..3c02ebc 100644
--- a/src/Validator.php
+++ b/src/Validator.php
@@ -429,7 +429,7 @@ private static function getValidUrlComponents(string $url, bool $onlyAbsoluteUrl
         if (
             is_array($components) &&
             !empty($components) &&
-            ($onlyAbsoluteUrl === false || filter_var($url, FILTER_VALIDATE_URL) !== false)
+            ($onlyAbsoluteUrl === false || (array_key_exists('scheme', $components) && !empty($components['scheme'])))
         ) {
             $components = self::filterEmptyStringComponents($components);
             $validComponents = self::validateUrlComponents($components);
diff --git a/tests/ResolverTest.php b/tests/ResolverTest.php
index 8c33d7a..1b8ef44 100644
--- a/tests/ResolverTest.php
+++ b/tests/ResolverTest.php
@@ -116,6 +116,10 @@
     $relativeBaseUrl = new Url('/foo/bar?query=string#fragment');
     $resolved = $resolver->resolve('https://www.example.com/examples', $relativeBaseUrl);
     $this->assertEquals('https://www.example.com/examples', $resolved);
+
+    $baseUrl = new Url('https://www.example.com/foo');
+    $resolved = $resolver->resolve('https://www.example.com/foo/bar-bür-bör', $baseUrl);
+    $this->assertEquals('https://www.example.com/foo/bar-b%C3%BCr-b%C3%B6r', $resolved);
 });
 
 test('ResolvePaths', function () {
diff --git a/tests/ValidatorTest.php b/tests/ValidatorTest.php
index b9bbddf..14f4394 100644
--- a/tests/ValidatorTest.php
+++ b/tests/ValidatorTest.php
@@ -120,6 +120,13 @@
     $this->assertNull(Validator::absoluteUrl('/foo/bar?query=string#fragment'));
 });
 
+test('validate an absolute URL containing non ASCII characters', function () {
+    $this->assertEquals(
+        'https://www.example.com/f%C3%B6%C3%B6',
+        Validator::absoluteUrl('https://www.example.com/föö')
+    );
+});
+
 test('ValidateAbsoluteUrlAndComponents', function () {
     assertArrayContains(
         Validator::absoluteUrlAndComponents('https://www.crwlr.software/packages/url/v0.1.2#installation'),