[Web-SIG] Next steps...

[John J Lee]

On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, Stuart Bishop wrote:
[...]
> Unicode URIs everywhere (
> http://www.w3.org/International/O-URL-code.html ).
> We should be able to do the equivalent of the following:
> 	urllib.urlretrieve(u'http://my.2\N{CENT SIGN}.net/\N{COPYRIGHT SIGN}')
[...]

Do you know what standards apply to this?  The page you reference talks
about using UTF-8 for %-encoding, but RFC 2396 allows any encoding, I
think (which makes it impossible to know what character string a %-encoded
URI represents).


John