Re: [Gnu-arch-users] URL Encoding

[Matthieu Moy]

Jan Hudec <address@hidden> writes:

> Of course, I have never seen an URL with %, so a heuristic that if it
> contains %, it is encoded, otherwise not would probably work for most
> people, but Tom does not like heuristics like this (and is right --

Yes !

> it would be a particularly  ugly interface) (though all web browsers
> do exactly this!).

But a heuristic just displaying a warning message like

"Warning: This URL  seems to be encoded, consider  using the --encoded
option" 

Seems to me to be the best compromize ... 

-- 
Matthieu