On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 2:11 AM, André Malo <n...@perlig.de> wrote: > * Adam Olsen wrote: > >> UTF-8 in percent encodings is becoming a defacto standard. Otherwise >> the browser has to display the percent escapes in the address bar, >> rather than the intended text. > > Duh! The address bar should contain the URL, which *is* the intended text. > The escapes are there for a reason. If I pass some octets using percent > escapes via the query string or request body, it's not text, not even > intended. It's still a collection of octets. Translating them back (and > forth when I press enter in the address bar) is a pretty ambigious > operation and therefore pretty wrong. > > The defacto standard does not exist. There's a real one instead: RFC 2396.
All the heaps of people using non-english wikipedia sites might disagree with you. There's only, what, a few *million* pages that would be affected? It'd be very interesting if someone at Google could provide some statistics on URL encodings. -- Adam Olsen, aka Rhamphoryncus _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
