[Python-Dev] Re: URL processing conformance and principles (was Re: urllib.urlopen...) (original) (raw)

Mike Brown mike at skew.org
Fri Sep 17 11:04:27 CEST 2004

I wrote:

%A0 in a URI is three characters in the URI. Together they are representing one octet (byte A0) in much the same way that the 6 characters è represents a single small-e-with-acute character in ISO/IEC 10646-based markup languages.

Actually I suppose it's not 'much the same way' since è does not at any point represent bytes, but you know what I mean, I think.

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