[tahoe-dev] [Python-Dev] PEP 383 update: utf8b is now the error handler

David-Sarah Hopwood david-sarah at jacaranda.org
Fri May 8 07:00:55 PDT 2009


David-Sarah Hopwood wrote:
> Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
>> The choice of "%" as the "escape" character is unfortunate, for the
>> reasons Glenn gives but also because of the collision with URL
>> encoding.  Spidering tools and the like regularly produce URL-encoded
>> filenames, and this will collide with that.
> 
> So use '@' or ':' instead.

Sorry, not ':', because that it is not valid in a Windows filename.

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David-Sarah Hopwood ⚥



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