Unicode vs. the World

[Jason McBrayer]

Björn Wärmedal <bjorn.warmedal at gmail.com> writes:

> Because — as I tried to point out — there is no reasonably simple
> heuristic for determining whether a URL is already percent encoded or
> not. And percent encoding a URL that is already percent encoded
> exchanges all % characters with %25.

It's not that hard. All you have to do is percent decode the path *first*,
then percent encode it. Consider this URL, which is a worst-case for
what you're talking about:

gemini://example.com/🐇%20🥕.gmi

Unquoting the path gives you 'gemini://example.com/🐇 🥕.gmi', of
course. And then quoting it gives you 

'gemini://example.com/%F0%9F%90%87%20%F0%9F%A5%95.gmi'

which decodes correctly.

Unquoting a path that is already plain ASCII does nothing to it.

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