On 05/22/2012 04:46 PM, Michael Meeks wrote:
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> On Tue, 2012-05-22 at 16:07 +0200, Stef Walter wrote:
>> If you have more details/links on how VCL gets around this, I'd be
>> interested. A bit of a morbid curiosity perhaps :P
>
> Sure; here is some of it:
>
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/l
On 23 May 2012, at 10:05, John Emmas wrote:
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> Still a bit confused really... :-(
>
Not any more
My confusion arose from the fact that the notes for g_filename_to_uri() (i.e.
the note inside gconvert.c) states that its based on the requirements of RFC
2396:-
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rf
On 23 May 2012, at 08:40, Jürg Billeter wrote:
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> U+00F6 is the Unicode codepoint but URI percent encoding never directly
> uses codepoints as you can encode only a single byte at a time and the
> range of Unicode codepoints is much larger than that (up to U+10).
> As Krzysztof already wrot
On 23 May 2012, at 08:57, David Nečas wrote:
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> This is nonsense. Percent-encoding consists of % followed by *two*
> hexadecimal digits and encodes *bytes*
>
Thanks David - are we at crossed purposes here? %F6 does consist of % followed
by two hexadecimal digits and it does encode a single
On Wed, 2012-05-23 at 06:48 +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.
U+00F6 is the Unicode codepoint but URI
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-encodin
