display URLs in Unicode
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bazaar |
Fix Released
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Medium
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John A Meinel | ||
Bug Description
(This is the complement of bug 42514)
When we have a URL representing an encoded Unicode string, we could try to translate it back to Unicode for display to the user. (For example this could be done in bzr info, when showing remembered urls, etc.)
The encoding of non-ascii characters in URLs is not defined. UTF-8 is somewhat standard, and if this was implemented we would need to assume that
Such a URL will contain urlescaped characters with the high bit set, which can be unescaped and then decoded as UTF-8. Note that we can't unescape all characters; those which are reserved in urls must be left as they are.
There is a problem with doing this though: URLs which are not actually UTF-8 but some other encoding may be displayed incorrectly as Unicode.
| John A Meinel (jameinel) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in bzr: | |
| assignee: | nobody → jameinel |
| status: | Unconfirmed → Fix Committed |
| Changed in bzr: | |
| status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
This should be finished in my encoding branch.