[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 14776] poorly escaped URLS are handled differently, umlaut in path breaks URLs

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http://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14776





------- Comment #5 from darin at apple.com  2007-07-27 07:51 PDT -------
(In reply to comment #4)
> (In reply to comment #3)
> As for the original bug - I think we are supposed to convert URLs to
> precomposed Unicode (%C3%BC, not u%CC%88), and we now do. In this particular
> case, it makes us incompatible with other browsers, but I still think that it's
> the right thing to do, because preferring decomposed Unicode is a Mac thing,
> and converting an URL to precomposed form makes it more Windows-like.

I don't think there's a lot of value in being "Mac-like" in cases like this.
I'd prefer to be consistent with the other browsers, even if that is
"Windows-like".


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