[Zope-dev] redirect burps on unicode URLs

Tres Seaver tseaver at palladion.com
Mon Mar 1 07:41:01 EST 2010


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Marius Gedminas wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 05:05:51PM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
>> On 2010-2-26 18:25, Tres Seaver wrote:
>>> Wichert Akkerman wrote:
>>>> I see this as naming confusion. In this day and age every URL is
>>>> effectively an IRI, and every modern browser treats them that way. If
>>>> you look at http://jp.wikipedia.org/ you can see how well that works. I
>>>> do not see why zope.publisher should not be able to support that
>>>> transparently. Other systems such as Routes and repoze.bfg do.
>>> Browseers *display* what looks like unicode to the user, but they *pass*
>>> URL-encoded ASCII bytes to the server.
>> But why can't zope.publisher do that conversion? It don't see the point 
>> in requiring all the thousands of routines that call those functions to 
>> do that conversion when zope.publisher can easily do so itself.
> 
> +1
> 
> Just like zope.publisher converts Unicode strings returned by views into
> UTF-8 (or whatever encoding negotiated via Accept-Charset),
> response.redirect() ought to Do The Right Thing with Unicode URLs or
> IRLs or whatever they're called.

- -1.

Where is this "unicode URL" coming from?  URLs generated from code
should already be "correct".


Tres.
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