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Tech stack
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Reproduce the failure with the quoted URL and then call click() or submit() on the response. Start with webtest/utils.py get_full_url and the WebOb request.py path_url and descriptors.py encget frames shown in the traceback; done means these actions no longer raise UnicodeDecodeError.

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I use quoted URLs such as /fr/livres/cr%C3%A9ation/ (for /fr/livres/création/).
get() is working fine with these urls but once I have the response if I try to use click() or submit() on it I get the following error:

/usr/lib/python3.3/http/cookiejar.py:1588: UserWarning: http.cookiejar bug!
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.3/http/cookiejar.py", line 1586, in make_cookies
    parse_ns_headers(ns_hdrs), request)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.3/http/cookiejar.py", line 1543, in _cookies_from_attrs_set
    cookie = self._cookie_from_cookie_tuple(tup, request)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.3/http/cookiejar.py", line 1492, in _cookie_from_cookie_tuple
    req_host, erhn = eff_request_host(request)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.3/http/cookiejar.py", line 612, in eff_request_host
    erhn = req_host = request_host(request)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.3/http/cookiejar.py", line 597, in request_host
    url = request.get_full_url()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.3/dist-packages/WebTest-2.0.8.dev0-py3.3.egg/webtest/utils.py", line 116, in get_full_url
    return self._request.url
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.3/dist-packages/WebOb-1.2.3-py3.3.egg/webob/request.py", line 505, in url
    url = self.path_url
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.3/dist-packages/WebOb-1.2.3-py3.3.egg/webob/request.py", line 477, in path_url
    bpath_info = bytes_(self.path_info, self.url_encoding)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.3/dist-packages/WebOb-1.2.3-py3.3.egg/webob/descriptors.py", line 68, in fget
    return req.encget(key, encattr=encattr)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.3/dist-packages/WebOb-1.2.3-py3.3.egg/webob/request.py", line 167, in encget
    return bytes_(val, 'latin-1').decode(encoding)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xe9 in position 5: invalid continuation byte

  _warn_unhandled_exception()

I'm using Ubuntu 13.04 64 bit and Python 3.3.1 with the last commit of Webtest.

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