[Python-Dev] urllib unicode handling (original) (raw)

Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven asmodai at in-nomine.org
Wed May 7 07:20:16 CEST 2008

-On [20080507 04:06], Tom Pinckney (thomaspinckney3 at gmail.com) wrote:

While in theory UTF-8 is not a standard, sites like Last.fm, Facebook and Wikipedia seem to have embraced it (as have pretty much all other major web sites). As with HTML, there is what the standard says and what the actual browsers have to accept in order to work in the real world.

I agree with you. The dictionary project I am working on (Dutch <> Japanese) uses in the URLs UTF-8 characters and things just worked with reasonably new browsers (at least no problems with Opera 9, Firefox 2 and 3, Internet Explorer 7 and Safari 3). Then later Armin Ronacher warned me that you still have to URL-escape these things in order to not be in lala-land.

Would people object if such functionality got added to urllib?

-- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai(-at-)in-nomine.org> / asmodai イェルーン ラウフロック ヴァン デル ウェルヴェン http://www.in-nomine.org/ | http://www.rangaku.org/ | GPG: 2EAC625B If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind..?

More information about the Python-Dev mailing list