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.)
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Received on Mon Jun 7 17:05:36 2004