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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2017-07-07 10:47:46 +0200
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2017-07-07 10:47:46 +0200
commita126ca8481b41c46231da4b927520c37c7302fc4 (patch)
tree951c130cbd13f218aefa50c1771da2f6014066e1 /docs/libcurl
parent0cec0f461567c152dd222982d3223dbd5e3423e7 (diff)
curl_easy_escape.3: mention the (lack of) encoding
Fixes #1612 Reported-by: Jeroen Ooms
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/libcurl')
-rw-r--r--docs/libcurl/curl_easy_escape.311
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_escape.3 b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_escape.3
index d2b6cd286..c8b7b6a4b 100644
--- a/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_escape.3
+++ b/docs/libcurl/curl_easy_escape.3
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
.\" * | (__| |_| | _ <| |___
.\" * \___|\___/|_| \_\_____|
.\" *
-.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2014, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
+.\" * Copyright (C) 1998 - 2017, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
.\" *
.\" * This software is licensed as described in the file COPYING, which
.\" * you should have received as part of this distribution. The terms
@@ -39,6 +39,15 @@ If \fIlength\fP is set to 0 (zero), \fIcurl_easy_escape(3)\fP uses strlen() on
the input \fIstring\fP to find out the size.
You must \fIcurl_free(3)\fP the returned string when you're done with it.
+.SH ENCODING
+libcurl is typically not aware of, nor does it care about, character
+encodings. \fIcurl_easy_escape(3)\fP encodes the data byte-by-byte into the
+URL encoded version without knowledge or care for what particular character
+encoding the application or the receiving server may assume that the data
+uses.
+
+The caller of \fIcurl_easy_escape(3)\fP must make sure that the data passed in
+to the funtion is encoded correctly.
.SH AVAILABILITY
Added in 7.15.4 and replaces the old \fIcurl_escape(3)\fP function.
.SH RETURN VALUE