As ISO 8859 supports % character, this sounds like a reasonable solution for me. we need to just use urllib2 library to encode it.

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On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 11:53 PM, Jeremy Baron <jeremy@tuxmachine.com> wrote:

On Jul 10, 2014 2:48 PM, "Amir Ladsgroup" <ladsgroup@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2- As our talk in here  I want to make a patch to add username in user-agent in header of API calls. but only ISO 8859 is being supported and usernames can be anything (utf-8). For usernames that might not compatible, people need to put e-mail address in user-config.py. Is it okay for you? Any comments?

Why not just percent-encode the username?

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