On Jan 17, 2006, at 4:34 AM, Oleg Broytmann wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 06:02:12PM -0500, David Binger wrote:
>> We just noticed that, in Python 2.4.2,
>> urllib.quote(u'\xe9') raises a KeyError.
>>
>> In Python 2.4.1, the exception is not raised,
>> and the result is '%E9'.
>
>    In any case you should not try to quote unicode strings. It's
> meaningless. Always .encode() it to the client encoding.

That is a good and interesting point.

Here's the background story, in case anyone is interested.
We ran into this here in an old function that renders a link
with a quoted "title" in a query string.  This was safe until
we started supporting unicode and non-ascii characters
actually appeared in titles.  We'll need to encode first,
as you suggest.




> Oleg.
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