Subject: Re: bug#24117: 25.1; url-http-create-request: Multibyte text in HTTP request

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2016 17:54:33 +0200

Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]> writes:

> I'll try it if you insist, but that choice of encoding seems rather
> arbitrary. I think we should go with your previous suggestion: make
> the URL parsing buffer unibyte.

It's be sad if

(url-generic-parse-url "http://góogle.com/fóo")

stopped working.

This function is Emacs' workhorse for chopping up URLs, and it's a very
useful function.  There's a bunch of hand-rolled URL parsing
implementations that don't quite work right.

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