[redland-dev] Redland string encoding

[Sebastian Trüg]

On Saturday 22 September 2007 17:55:17 Dave Beckett wrote:
> Sebastian Trüg wrote:
> > Hello guys,
> >
> > how are strings in redland encoded? I am mainly talking about option
> > strings such as used on librdf_new_storage. Are they in local encoding or
> > utf8?
>
> Strings in Redland are UTF8 with very few exceptions, such as the language
> tags for literals like "en-US-ca" which are an ASCII subset and defined by
> an IETF RFC.  I can't think of another exception right now.  I would never
> use a local encoding.  You can use libiconv, ICU or similar to convert.

that is very good. Once more encoding question: are URIs encoded as ascii 
using % syntax or also utf8?

Cheers,
Sebastian