Pleas for Unicode support in (e.g.) urllib.quote().

pep-0042.txt

@@ -190,6 +190,13 @@ Standard Library
       should be defined in a helper module that's imported by both).
       [No bug report; I just thought of this.]
 
+    - More standard library routines should support Unicode.  For
+      example, urllib.quote() could convert Unicode strings to UTF-8
+      and then do the usual %HH conversion.  But this is not the only
+      one!
+
+      http://sourceforge.net/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=116716&group_id=5470
+
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     - IDLE should reload & recompile modules changed externally.  To