[Chandler-dev] Re: [commits] (morgen) [11685] People often get spaces in their sharing urls when copying/pasting, so detecting/complaining about them on subscribe

[Morgen Sagen]

On Sep 7, 2006, at 5:46 PM, Philippe Bossut wrote:

> Hi Morgen,
>
> Rather than a dialog and error, shouldn't we rather use the ISO- 
> Latin encoding (used for URLs) and convert those characters? For  
> space, this is 32 decimal or 20 in Hex so it becomes '%20' in a URL.
>
> e.g.: http://www.osaf.foo bar.htm -> http://www.osaf.foo%20bar.htm
>
> I'd prefer that to a dialog to be honest. It'll catch some simple  
> encoding/decoding cases though, indeed, it might be that the URL is  
> wrong anyway...
>
> Cheers,
> - Philippe

In this case I'm not adding a dialog -- the user is already in the  
Subscribe dialog, and the warning about embedded spaces is actually  
displayed at the bottom of that dialog.  Also, I think most of the  
time these embedded spaces are truly copy/paste errors caused by  
wrapped lines, and so converting them to %20 isn't going to be the  
right fix.