Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: > Bill Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: > > Erik van der Poel at Google has now chimed in with stats on current URL > usage: > > ``...the bottom line is that escaped non-utf-8 is still quite prevalent, > enough (in my opinion) to require an implementation in Python, possibly > even allowing for different encodings in the path and query parts (e.g. > utf-8 path and gb2312 query).'' > > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-international/2008JulSep/0042.html > > I think it's worth remembering that a very large proportion of the use > of Python's urllib.unquote() is in implementations of Web server > frameworks of one sort or another. We can't control what the browsers > that talk to such frameworks produce; the IETF doesn't control that, > either. In this case, "practicality beats purity" is the clarion call > of the browser designers, and we'd better be able to support them.
I think we're supporting these sufficiently by allowing developers to override the encoding and errors value. I see no argument here against having a default encoding of UTF-8. _______________________________________ 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
