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Diffstat (limited to 'lisp/url')
| -rw-r--r-- | lisp/url/url-util.el | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/url/url-util.el b/lisp/url/url-util.el index 7c913bcb1a9..8b79736d004 100644 --- a/lisp/url/url-util.el +++ b/lisp/url/url-util.el @@ -335,10 +335,13 @@ instead of just \"key\" as in the example above." ;;;###autoload (defun url-unhex-string (str &optional allow-newlines) - "Remove %XX embedded spaces, etc in a URL. + "Decode %XX sequences in a percent-encoded URL. If optional second argument ALLOW-NEWLINES is non-nil, then allow the decoding of carriage returns and line feeds in the string, which is normally -forbidden in URL encoding." +forbidden in URL encoding. + +The resulting string in general requires decoding using an +appropriate coding-system; see `decode-coding-string'." (setq str (or str "")) (let ((tmp "") (case-fold-search t)) |