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

[Guido van Rossum]

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 8:09 AM, André Malo <nd at perlig.de> wrote:
> I'm actually in favour of encoding bytes only back and forth. A useful
> extension would be *another* function which wraps quote/unquote and encodes
> and decodes characters.

I'd reverse this. By all means, add a new pair of functions that is
bytes in / bytes out. But keep the existing functions purely string in
/ string out, hardcoded to UTF-8. People wanting another encoding can
use the bytes functions and explicit encode / decode calls.

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