[hunchentoot-devel] url-encode doesn't encode apostrophes

[Robert Uhl]

I'm using url-encode to encode strings that I use for keys (see
e.g. <http://octopodial-chrome.com/tasting-notes/beer/Fuller%26rsquo%3Bs/2000%20Vintage%20Ale>;
the brewer and beer name strings are both Unicode/HTML and contain
characters meaningful in a URL).
While running my pages through the w3c validator, I discovered that
url-encode doesn't encode apostrophes ('), so now I run my strings
through (cl-who:encode-string (hunchentoot:url-encode string)); is this
the appropriate way to do things?

It might be: url-encode turns a string into a string suitable for a URL
and encode-string turns a string into a string suitable for an HTML
attribute value.  Still, it seems a bit...complex.

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Robert Uhl <http://public.xdi.org/=ruhl>
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