Re: Can someone please comment on this short program

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 10:43 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
> 
> And gnome_vfs_uri_new() wants an escaped URI?
> And gnome_vsf_uri_to_string() returns an escaped URI? 

Yes. All instances of URIs are escaped. There really isn't anything like
an "unescaped URI". Valid URIs by specification are escaped. In other
words, neither "öäå", "/tmp/öäå" or "file:///tmp/åäö" are valid uris.

Of course, such "URI"s regularly appear as user input in e.g. location
entries or whatnot. This is why gnome-vfs has a set of functions for
converting these into actual uris:

gnome_vfs_make_uri_from_input
gnome_vfs_make_uri_from_input_with_trailing_ws
gnome_vfs_make_uri_from_input_with_dirs
gnome_vfs_make_uri_from_shell_arg

There is also a function to display a uri nicely:
gnome_vfs_format_uri_for_display

Its even guaranteed that roundtrips of a uri via
gnome_vfs_format_uri_for_display and then gnome_vfs_make_uri_from_input
do not loose data, so you can use this to implement e.g. a location
entry.

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