Greek characters in query string

[Omar Polo]

Stephane Bortzmeyer <stephane at sources.org> writes:

> On Wed, Mar 03, 2021 at 09:57:07PM -0500,
>  Rev. Fr. Robert Bower <frrobert at frrobert.com> wrote 
>  a message of 38 lines which said:
>
>> When the url with the query string is sent to the server (I am using
>> Molly Brown the server and amfora as a client) it is changed the
>> Greek characters using url encoding.
>> 
>> I am wondering how to I decode the url to get back the Greek
>> characters.  I am using bash for my scripts.
>
> The server (MollyBrown) should do it for you :-( but if it doesn't, in
> bash, you have several solutions:

AFAIK that's not correct.  gmid was doing exactly that, and after
talking to Sean that raised some doubts about my CGI implementation (for
this and other details), I re-checked the RFC3875[0] and it effectively
requires QUERY_STRING to be url-encoded:

> 4.1.7.  QUERY_STRING
>
> The QUERY_STRING variable contains a URL-encoded search or parameter
> string;

[0]: gemini://tanso.net/rfc/rfc3875.txt