diff --git a/wp-includes/formatting.php b/wp-includes/formatting.php
index e2b969a6a0..09863061f7 100644
--- a/wp-includes/formatting.php
+++ b/wp-includes/formatting.php
@@ -682,8 +682,8 @@ function _make_email_clickable_cb($matches) {
 function make_clickable($ret) {
 	$ret = ' ' . $ret;
 	// in testing, using arrays here was found to be faster
-	$ret = preg_replace_callback('#([\s>])([\w]+?://[\w\#$%&~/.\-;:=,?@\[\]+]*)#is', '_make_url_clickable_cb', $ret);
-	$ret = preg_replace_callback('#([\s>])((www|ftp)\.[\w\#$%&~/.\-;:=,?@\[\]+]*)#is', '_make_web_ftp_clickable_cb', $ret);
+	$ret = preg_replace_callback('#([\s>])([\w]+?://[\w\\x80-\\xff\#$%&~/.\-;:=,?@\[\]+]*)#is', '_make_url_clickable_cb', $ret);
+	$ret = preg_replace_callback('#([\s>])((www|ftp)\.[\w\\x80-\\xff\#$%&~/.\-;:=,?@\[\]+]*)#is', '_make_web_ftp_clickable_cb', $ret);
 	$ret = preg_replace_callback('#([\s>])([.0-9a-z_+-]+)@(([0-9a-z-]+\.)+[0-9a-z]{2,})#i', '_make_email_clickable_cb', $ret);
 	// this one is not in an array because we need it to run last, for cleanup of accidental links within links
 	$ret = preg_replace("#(<a( [^>]+?>|>))<a [^>]+?>([^>]+?)</a></a>#i", "$1$3</a>", $ret);
@@ -1147,7 +1147,7 @@ function clean_url( $url, $protocols = null, $context = 'display' ) {
 	$original_url = $url;
 
 	if ('' == $url) return $url;
-	$url = preg_replace('|[^a-z0-9-~+_.?#=!&;,/:%@()]|i', '', $url);
+	$url = preg_replace('|[^a-z0-9-~+_.?#=!&;,/:%@()\\x80-\\xff]|i', '', $url);
 	$strip = array('%0d', '%0a');
 	$url = str_replace($strip, '', $url);
 	$url = str_replace(';//', '://', $url);