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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Q: The dimension of UNICODE awareness
From:       Lars Knoll <Lars.Knoll () mpi-hd ! mpg ! de>
Date:       1999-10-14 11:03:31
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On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Waldo Bastian wrote:

> On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Boris Povazay wrote:
[...]
> 
> Great. So they basically say the same, do Unicode -> UTF8 and then go
> from UTF8 to URL-encoding.
> 
> This means that the URL of a korean filename looks like shit. So I
> think we should distinguish between the "URL encoding according to the
> RFCs" and a "printable URL". In the printable version we can unescape
> everything as long as it remains unambiguous (We should still escape
> ":", "/" , "?" and maybe a few others.)
> 
> so we would get e.g.
>    QCString KUrl::url() 
> and 
>    QString KUrl::printableURL()
> 
> Opinions?

Sounds reasonable. I'd say we should go that way.

Bye,
Lars

> 
> Cheers,
> Waldo
> 
> 

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