Re: %-escapes in file URL

[YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu]

>>>>> On Sat, 20 May 2006 01:04:28 -0400, Richard Stallman <address@hidden> 
>>>>> said:

>     A simple and natural policy is to always keep URLs in escaped forms,
>     whether or not they are used inside Emacs only.  So, my proposal is as
>     follows:

>       * Always treat URLs as those in escaped form.  Don't re-escape or
>       unescape them as long as they are URLs (i.e, have a prefix such as
>       "file://").  Increasing the kind of escaped characters is not
>       re-escaping.

>       * When creating a URL from a file name, encode the file name with
>       the file name coding system and then %-escape it.

>       * When creating a file name from a URL, %-unescape the URL and then
>       decode it with the file name coding system.

> Do people agree with that proposal?

> What changes are needed to implement it?

Oops, I've already installed the change as Jan agreed it.

  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2006-05/msg00784.html
  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2006-05/msg01067.html

P.S.  The email failure turned out to be a temporary one.

                                     YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
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