urllib.quote and unicode

[Erik Max Francis]

Tim Roberts wrote:

> urllib.quote was designed for encoding URLs.  URLs have to be
> ISO-8859-1,
> so they cannot include Unicode characters.

Actually, according to RFC 1738, they're ASCII.

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