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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Q: The dimension of UNICODE awareness
From:       Achim Bohnet <ach () mpe ! mpg ! de>
Date:       1999-10-14 11:20:58
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>>>Waldo Bastian wrote:
 > On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Boris Povazay wrote:
 > > Waldo Bastian wrote:
 [...[
 > > 
 > >   Note. The same conversion based on UTF-8 should be applied to values
 > > of the name attribute for the A element. 
 > > ---
 > > 
 > > Hope it helps!
 > 
 > 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?

Great!  This avoids escaped-unreadable in the URL visible to the user.
But IMHO  the 'file:' prefix in another annoyance and should be stripped
by printableURL().

Just my two cents,
Achim
KURL::printableURL() should strip 'file:' for a local URL.


 > 
 > Cheers,
 > Waldo
 > 



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