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Treat URL! as normal strings with no encoding behavior
While Rebol2, R3-Alpha, and Red attempted to apply some amount of decoding (e.g. how %20 is "space" in http:// URL!s), this changes to leave URLs "as-is". This serves the goal that a URL may be copied from a web browser bar, printed/molded out, and pasted back round-trip. It also means that the URL may be used with custom schemes (odbc://...) that have different ideas of the meaning of characters like `%`. The current concept is that URL!s typically represent the *decoded* forms, and thus express unicode codepoints normally...preserving either of: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=hergé+&+tintin https://duckduckgo.com/?q=hergé+%26+tintin Then, the encoded forms with UTF-8 bytes expressed in %XX form would be converted as STRING!, where their datatype suggests the encodedness: {https://duckduckgo.com/?q=herg%C3%A9+%26+tintin} (This is similar to how local FILE!s, where e.g. slashes become backslash on Windows, are expressed as STRING!.)
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