Tom Pinckney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: I mentioned this is in a brief python-dev discussion earlier this spring, but many popular websites such as Wikipedia and Facebook do use UTF-8 as their character encoding scheme for the path and argument portion of URLs.
I know there's no RFC that says this is what should be done, but in order to make urllib work out-of-the-box on as many common websites as possible, I think defaulting to UTF-8 decoding makes a lot of sense. Possibly allow an option charset argument to be passed into quote and unquote, but default to UTF-8 in the absence of an explicit character set being passed in? ---------- nosy: +thomaspinckney3 _______________________________________ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue3300> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
