[issue3300] urllib.quote and unquote - Unicode issues

[Bill Janssen]

Bill Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment:

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Antoine Pitrou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:

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> Antoine Pitrou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment:
>
> Le mercredi 13 août 2008 à 17:05 +0000, Bill Janssen a écrit :
> > I think it's worth remembering that a very large proportion of the use
> > of Python's urllib.unquote() is in implementations of Web server
> > frameworks of one sort or another.  We can't control what the browsers
> > that talk to such frameworks produce;
>
> Yes, we do. Browsers will use whatever charset is specified in the HTML
> for the query part; and, as for the path part, they should't produce it
> themselves, they just follow a link which should already be
> percent-quoted in the HTML.

Sure.  What I meant was that we don't control what the browsers do, we just
go along with what they do, that is, we try to play with the default
understanding that's developed between the "consenting pairs" of
Apache/Firefox or ASP/IE.

Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file11107/unnamed

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<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 10:51 
AM, Antoine Pitrou <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:[EMAIL 
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Antoine Pitrou &lt;<a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">[EMAIL PROTECTED]</a>&gt; 
added the comment:<br>
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</div>Le mercredi 13 août 2008 à 17:05 +0000, Bill Janssen a écrit :<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d">&gt; I think it&#39;s worth remembering that a very large 
proportion of the use<br>
&gt; of Python&#39;s urllib.unquote() is in implementations of Web server<br>
&gt; frameworks of one sort or another. &nbsp;We can&#39;t control what the 
browsers<br>
&gt; that talk to such frameworks produce;<br>
<br>
</div>Yes, we do. Browsers will use whatever charset is specified in the 
HTML<br>
for the query part; and, as for the path part, they should&#39;t produce it<br>
themselves, they just follow a link which should already be<br>
percent-quoted in the HTML.</blockquote><div><br>Sure.&nbsp; What I meant was 
that we don&#39;t control what the browsers do, we just go along with what they 
do, that is, we try to play with the default understanding that&#39;s developed 
between the &quot;consenting pairs&quot; of Apache/Firefox or ASP/IE.<br>
</div></div><br></div>

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