Matt Giuca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Point taken. But the RFC certainly doesn't say that ISO-8859-1 should be used. Since we're outputting a Unicode string in Python 3, we need to decode with some encoding, and UTF-8 seems the most sensible and standardised. (Even the existing test case in test_urllib.py:466 uses a UTF-8-encoded URL, and I had to fix it so it decodes into a meaningful string).
Having said that, it's possible that you may wish to use another encoding, and legal to do so. Therefore, I'd suggest we add an "encoding" argument to both quote and unquote, which defaults to "utf-8". Note that in the current implementation, unquote is not an inverse of quote, because quote uses UTF-8 to encode characters with code points >= 256, while unquote decodes them as ISO-8859-1. I think it's important these two functions are inverses of each other. _______________________________________ 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
