Subject: bug#6252: Emacs does not implement URL (aka "percent") decoding correctly.

From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 09:38:31 +0200

José A. Romero L. <[email-masked]> writes:

> in short, there seems to be currently no way to perform the opposite
> of url-hexify-string for UTF-8 encoded strings:
>
>     (url-unhex-string (url-hexify-string "ä"))
>     => "Ã¤"

`url-unhex-string' can't know what encoding the %xx-encoding is in, can
it?  The local part of an URL can use a different encoding, I think.

But is that the test case for the bug?  I thought somebody had problems
retrieving something...

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