[Python-Dev] urllib unicode handling

[Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven]

-On [20080507 04:06], Tom Pinckney (thomaspinckney3 at gmail.com) wrote:
>While in theory UTF-8 is not a standard, sites like Last.fm, Facebook and 
>Wikipedia seem to have embraced it (as have pretty much all other major web 
>sites). As with HTML, there is what the standard says and what the actual 
>browsers have to accept in order to work in the real world.

I agree with you. The dictionary project I am working on (Dutch <> Japanese)
uses in the URLs UTF-8 characters and things just worked with reasonably new
browsers (at least no problems with Opera 9, Firefox 2 and 3, Internet
Explorer 7 and Safari 3). Then later Armin Ronacher warned me that you still
have to URL-escape these things in order to not be in lala-land.

Would people object if such functionality got added to urllib?

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