Bug#653099: ITP: liburi-encode-perl -- Perl module to encode and decode strings to URIs

[Ernesto Hernández-Novich <emhn@usb.ve>]

On Fri, 2011-12-23 at 12:10 -0800, Don Armstrong wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Dec 2011, Ernesto Hernández-Novich wrote:
> > * Package name    : liburi-encode-perl
> >   Version         : 0.04
> >   Upstream Author : Mithun Ayachit <mithun@cpan.org>
> > * URL             : http://search.cpan.org/dist/URI-Encode/
> > * License         : Artistic
> >   Programming Lang: Perl
> >   Description     : Perl module to encode and decode strings to URIs
> > 
> > URI::Encode provides an easy method to encode strings (mainly URLs)
> > into a format which can be pasted into a plain text, so that those
> > links are 'clickable' by the person reading it.
> > 
> > If you are looking for speed and want to encode reserved characters,
> > use URI::Escape::XS
> 
> Why is anyone using URI::Encode instead of URI::Escape, which handles
> all of this, is faster to boot, and is in core? If you actually wanted
> its main feature, you'd just use:
> 
> use URI::Escape qw(uri_escape_utf8);
> uri_escape_utf8($string,"^A-Za-z0-9\-\._~:\/\?\#\[\]\@\!\$\&\'\(\)\*\+\,\;\=");

I agree. I've packaged URI::Encode because it's a dependency for a
larger module (Facebook::Graph). I've already opened a bug upstream
suggesting that URI::Escape be used instead of URI::Encode.
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