Antoine Pitrou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Le dimanche 10 août 2008 à 07:05 +0000, Matt Giuca a écrit : > I don't think it's worth the extra code bloat and performance hit just > to implement a feature whose only use is producing invalid URIs (since > URIs are supposed to only have ASCII characters).
Agreed. > If the QUERY_STRING is "foo=w%FCt" (Latin-1), with errors='strict', you > get a UnicodeDecodeError when you call cgi.FieldStorage(). With > errors='replace', the variable foo will be "w�t". I think in general I'd > rather have '�'s in my program (representing invalid user input) than > exceptions, since this is usually a user input error, not a programming > error. Invalid user input? What if the query string comes from filling a form? For example if I search the word "numéro" in a latin1 Web site, I get the following URL: http://www.le-tigre.net/spip.php?page=recherche&recherche=num%E9ro _______________________________________ 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
