The [documentation](https://www.sqlite.org/c3ref/open.html#urifilenamesinsqlite3open) says: > URI filename interpretation is enabled if the SQLITE_OPEN_URI flag is set in the third argument to sqlite3_open_v2(), or if it has been enabled globally using the SQLITE_CONFIG_URI option with the sqlite3_config() method or by the SQLITE_USE_URI compile-time option. URI filename interpretation is turned off by default