[Zope-dev] Unicode id's and utf8 url encoding

[Stuart Bishop]

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Hi. I think the last thread on this issue was:
	http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/zope-Dev/1843637

 From my reading of RFC2396 and RFC2277, the character set encoding for 
URLs is UTF8. This is confirmed by 
http://www.w3.org/International/O-URL-code.html .

Does this settle the issue on how to handle non-ascii strings in URLs? 
If so, is their anything stopping us allowing Unicode ids in Zope? This 
would involve patching OFS.ObjectManager.checkValidId to accept strings 
not in [0-9a-zA-Z\$\-_\.\+!\*'(),], and writing replacement 
urllib.quote and urllib.unquote methods for use by HTTPRequest.py.

If this is deemed a sane plan, I'd like to try getting this into Zope 
2.7.

It would also be worth fixing Python's urllib.quote and urllib.unquote 
methods, but that is an issue for a seperate mailing list...
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Stuart Bishop <stuart at stuartbishop.net> ☞ http://www.stuartbishop.net/
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