Re: Potential RFC: mb_rawurlencode() ?

Hi Rowan & all, > On Mar 22, 2025, at 10:20, Rowan Tommins [IMSoP] <imsop.php@rwec.co.uk> wrote: > > On 21/03/2025 11:17, Tim Düsterhus wrote: >> >> I am not sure if that signature makes sense and if the proposed functionality fits into >> mbstring for that reason. IRIs are defined as UTF-8, any other encoding results in invalid output / >> results that are not interoperable. > > This confirms a nagging feeling I had when I first saw the thread: the name > "mb_rawurlencode" implies "do the same things as rawurlencode, but for multi-byte > strings", but that's not what is being proposed. [snip] No argument; my point is more "if we are going to do IRI and WHATWG-URL, we're going to need some additional support functionality around encoding component values for them." How that is achieved is up for grabs. If this discussion has revealed a tentative consensus that it needs to happen, I consider it a success. Next up: what exactly should the API around this functionality look like? I suggested functions but that's clearly a non-starter; what do we feel is a good alternative, and can it be achieved independently from (but in support of) the URI+WHATWG-URL proposal? -- pmj