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Re: %-escapes in file URL
From: |
Richard Stallman |
Subject: |
Re: %-escapes in file URL |
Date: |
Sat, 20 May 2006 01:04:28 -0400 |
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?