[Python-Dev] urllib unicode handling

[Robert Brewer]

"Martin v. Löwis" wrote:
> The proper way to implement this would be IRIs (RFC 3987),
> in particular section 3.1. This is not as simple as just
> encoding it as UTF-8, as you might have to apply IDNA to
> the host part.
> 
> Code doing so just hasn't been contributed yet.

But if someone wanted to do so, it's pretty simple:

>>> u'www.\u212bngstr\xf6m.com'.encode("idna")
'www.xn--ngstrm-hua5l.com'


Robert Brewer
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