In http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2009-06/0165.shtml,
C. Michael Pilato penned the following enlightening piece:
> Do we not having a single function that can take a array of const char *,
> native encoding path-spec arguments and return an array of structures that
> contain a UTF-8 const char * path field and peg revision? Seems like we
> could stand to have such a thing if we don't already. We could then have
> helper functions that accept one of those structures and do other
> transformations on it, such as expanding shortcut URLs (^/) and IRIs
> ("http://server/path with spaces") into canonical form, and so on.
>
> I dunno ... I guess I just figured that after 9 years, we'd know how to
> consistently parse our command-line arguments.
This issue exists to track the task of making the above description reality.
See also issue #3416 which prompted the discussion in the first place.
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