On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 06:48:31AM +0100, John Emmas wrote: > But whatever that (second) character looked like, it's decimal value would > always be 246 (because the UTF-8 sequence C3 B6 translates to decimal 246). > > The URI translation of decimal 246 is %F6.
This is nonsense. Percent-encoding consists of % followed by *two* hexadecimal digits and encodes *bytes*, see http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-2.1 If things worked as you suggest you would not be able to encode any codepoint larger than 255 and the entire thing would be pretty useless. Yeti _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list