"Using Saved Location: foo"

[John Arbash Meinel]

Jan Hudec wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 09:55:09 -0500, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
>> Aaron Bentley wrote:
>> So I think we should display unescaped "urls" as much as possible. (Yes
>> they are not real urls, but they are close).
>>
>> Now, doing so violates the "support urls that aren't unicode" principle
>> that we have been talking about. But I think the violation is worth it
>> for the user.
> 
> Well, it mostly supports them. If the sequence makes sense in utf-8, then
> decode it, else leave it as is. Also codes for things like %, ,, ;, ? and
> & would have to remain undecoded, since they have special meaning in URLs.
> It is pretty rare that non-utf8 sequence is valid utf-8 due to the redundancy
> in utf8.
> 

Are there any others which we need to be careful of? I can just write a
"safe_decode_url" which is just a helper for displaying URLs in a nice
form to the user.

John
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