Re: eww doesn't decode %AA%BB%CC URL names

[Yuri Khan]

On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 11:40 PM, Lars Ingebrigtsen <address@hidden> wrote:
> (decode-coding-string (url-unhex-string
> "%D0%A1%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B4%D1%86%D0%B5")
> 'utf-8)
> => "Сердце"
>
> Right.  What charset do we choose?  I guess using the charset of the
> document we're in doesn't make much sense (because it's linking to
> something off-site which may be in a different charset)...

By RFC 3986, percent-encoded URLs SHOULD use UTF-8 encoding. If the
URL does not decode into a valid UTF-8 string, it is ok to fall back
to a heuristic, though.