[hunchentoot-devel] url-decode with Unicode text

[Edi Weitz]

On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 18:27:16 -0400, "Andrei Stebakov" <lispercat at gmail.com> wrote:

> Let's say I have some Greek text in the url, which is encoded in
> utf-8. The string is "ελληνική".  When the ht server receives the
> request with the string, it goes to url-decode with fails with the
> message: junk in string
> "%u03B5%u03BB%u03BB%u03B7%u03BD%u03B9%u03BA%u03AE"

That's a non-standard syntax which is not supported.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Url_encoding#Non-standard_implementations