[Zope-dev] Non-ASCII characters in URLs

Tino Wildenhain tino at wildenhain.de
Wed Apr 9 06:43:58 EDT 2008


Dieter Maurer wrote:
> Wichert Akkerman wrote at 2008-4-7 20:45 +0200:
>> ...
>>> Almost surely, Alexander wants to ask why Zope does not allow
>>> non-ASCII characters in ids.
>>>
>>> And, in fact, there are only two reasons:
>>>
>>>   *  lazyness of the Zope developpers:
>>>
>>>      without the restriction to ASCII characters
>>>      careful quoting (and unquoting) is necessary
>>>      in order to adhere to RFC 2396 (the modern uri syntax specification)
>> This is becoming increasingly painful
> 
> I will soon have a patch against Zope 2.11b1
> which gets rid of this restriction.
> 
> If there is consense, I can add it to the Zope repository.

+1 from my side. Saves me the work to cleanup my own dirty
patch :-))



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