[Python-Dev] urllib.quote and unquote - Unicode issues

[Facundo Batista]

2008/7/30 Matt Giuca <matt.giuca at gmail.com>:

> 2. Default to UTF-8.
> In favour: Matt Giuca, Brett Cannon, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
> Pros: Fully working and tested solution is implemented; recommended by
> RFC 3986 for all future schemes; recommended by W3C for use with HTML;
> UTF-8 used by all major browsers; supports all characters; most
> existing code compatible by default; unquote is inverse of quote.
> Cons: By default, URIs may have invalid octet sequences (not possible
> to reverse).

+1, assuming that if you have a different encoding in the URI you can
pass it as a parameter.

Regards,

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