[Web-SIG] Request for Comments on upcoming WSGI Changes

[Robert Brewer]

Armin Ronacher wrote:
> WSGI will demand UTF-8 URLs and only
> provide iso-XXX support for backwards compatibility.

WSGI cannot demand that; a recommendation for utf-8 in a few draft
specifications is at least a decade removed from ubiquitous
implementation. We can default to utf-8 at best. I discussed this at
length in
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/web-sig/2009-August/003948.html


Robert Brewer
fumanchu at aminus.org