[RFC] Add a Transport.human_url method?

[John Arbash Meinel]

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Martin Pool wrote:
> 2009/7/24 Andrew Cowie <andrew at operationaldynamics.com>:
>> On Fri, 2009-07-24 at 14:39 +1000, Andrew Bennetts wrote:
>>> 3. human_url(): is for reporting to humans in errors and the like.
>> Do you mean presenting:
>>
>>        http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~bzr/bzr-push-and-update/trunk/
>>
>> instead of:
>>
>>        http://bazaar.launchpad.net/%7Ebzr/bzr-push-and-update/trunk/
>>
>> [which is what (for example) `bzr info` says at the moment]?
> 
> No, that's something different - and I think it's now fixed in trunk
> to show the tilde.
> 
> That's normalize_url and _unescape_safe_characters.
> 

What about local paths?

"human form" sounds like it should be a Unicode string, especially wrt
non-ascii paths. (Russian, etc urls are exceptionally impossible to
read, since they end up as utf-8 and % escaped.)

John
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