Investigate How Repository.find_all Treats URI Escapes

[runpaint]

The query for Repository.find_all is an Array of words concatenated with ‘+’ signs. Oddly, separating the words with percent-encoded spaces doesn’t work. What does this imply about the suitability of URI-escaping the query? We need to do something with special characters, or they’ll mess up the URL we generate. Do we just escape as normal, but replace spaces with ‘+’?

[radar]

Do you have any examples of any repositories with characters that need to be escaped?

[runpaint]

IIRC, it wasn't the name of the repository, it was that .find_all took an arbitrary string then only superficially munged it before constructing the URL. While repository names are presumably limited to US-ASCII, their descriptions and author names aren't.

Sorry for not providing a test case. :-/