URL fragment parameters should be unicode

[sma]

most if not all browsers will pass URLs utf-8 encoded (curl does). I shouldn't be required to decode that manually. Example:

@route(r"/:name")
def test(name):
    print `name`, type(name)
    return name

Now call this with curl http://localhost:8080/äöüß. A UnicodeDecodeError exception is raised. I can workaround this error by adding

@validate(name=lambda n:n.decode("utf-8"))

but I don't want to ;)

[defnull]

URLs are defined as byte strings and have no specific encoding. The client decides how to byte-encode unicode-URLs and there is no way for the Framework to guess the encoding used by the client. It is utf8 most of the time but URLs with raw bytes in them are allowed an encodings that would break a decode('utf8') do exist.

Same goes for GET parameter. Only POST-data can be properly decoded using the "Content-Transfer-Encoding" header.