[Python-Dev] urllib unicode handling

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> If this is indeed the case, it sounds perfectly legal (according to the
> RFC) and perfectly practical (as required by numerous popular websites)
> to have urllib.quote and urllib.quote_plus do an automatic UTF-8
> encoding of unicode strings before percent encoding them.

It's probably legal, but I don't understand why you think it's
practical. The DNS lookup then will certainly fail, no?

Regards,
Martin