Re: address@hidden: [patch] url-hexify-string does not follow W3C spec]

[Stefan Monnier]

>   * Rev 1.14
>     The argument is assumed to be either a sequence of characters or a
>     sequence of octets depending on the multibyteness of the string.
>     Incompatibility still remains for a multibyte string containing
>     eight-bit-control or eight-bit-graphic, but usually negligible.

What incompatibility?  If the string only contains ASCII and eight-bit-*,
then encoding it with utf-8 will return the same string of bytes (except
in a unibyte string rather than multibyte string).


        Stefan