Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
>On Sun, 2004-06-06 at 12:51, Brian Denny wrote:
>
>
>>On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 10:50:54PM -0400, Greg Hudson wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>And then users start pasting those fuzzy urls into web browsers and
>>>>wondering why they don't work.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>What makes you think they don't work in web browsers? Web browsers are
>>>more than happy to auto-escape URIs. (I just checked; spaces work fine,
>>>and so do UTF-8 characters. % characters, not so much, for obvious
>>>reasons.)
>>>
>>>
>>To me, this is key. To the extent that the most widely used web browsers
>>accept unescaped URLs, svn should too.
>>
>>
>
>I have to agree. To me, it proves that (1) a "reasonable" amount of
>auto-escaping can be done without creating widespread confusion, and (2)
>users already expect this behavior.
>
>(The fact that users might be referring to "http://host/sn%c3%b6gubbe" as a
>URL, when in fact it isn't, is something that only bothers programmers.)
>
>
+1 FWIW. I'd also lean strongly towards fixing this in 1.1 if at all
possible.
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Brane Čibej <brane_at_xbc.nu> http://www.xbc.nu/brane/
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