[Python-Dev] urllib.quote and unquote - Unicode issues (original) (raw)

Stephen J. Turnbull stephen at xemacs.org
Thu Jul 31 12:13:35 CEST 2008

Bill Janssen writes:

A quoting function that accepts bytes must have an encoding argument.

Huh? What would it use it for?

Ah, you're right. I was thinking in terms of an URI builder, where the quoter would do any required conversion (eg, if the bytes represented a string in Japanese) to another (possibly scheme-mandated) encoding (typically UTF-8). But that doesn't really make sense; the URI builder should know what to do, and that's a better place to do such conversions.

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