On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 1:02 PM Alex Christensen
at some point you may run into issues with people trying to give your library input like http://example.com/💩 and expecting the URL parser to normalize it to http://example.com/%F0%9F%92%A9
Okay, I think what you're saying is that you will have this string literal: string_view s = "http://example.com/\xf0\x9f\x92\xa9"; Unfortunately, this is not a valid URL and I don't think that the library should accept this input. However, you could write this: url u = parse_uri( "http://example.com" ).value(); u.set_path( "/\xf0\x9f\x92\xa9" ); This will produce: assert( u.encoded_url() == "http://example.com/%f0%9f%92%a9" ); Is this what you meant? I'm guessing that the turd emoji is inserted into the C++ source file as a utf-8 encoded code point, so that's what you get in the string literal. Thanks