Re: upstream and downstream

We do treat "." specially in IDNA because that's part of domain name.

Likewise, IRI should treat '/', '#', spaces etc specially as part of 
URL handling.

(if we ever get around to do email, i expect i18n email identifiers to 
handle a separate sets of symbols)

-James Seng

On 21-Feb-05, at PM 04:17, Adam M. Costello wrote:

> James Seng <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> the way i look at the '/' problem is that it isn't a IDN problem
>> but rather an URL specific problem.  So i think the problem can be
>> resolved in IRI do appropriate mapping.
>
> That's an interesting idea.  Maybe all homographs of the reserved
> characters should also be reserved, which would mean they must always 
> be
> percent-escaped.
>
> AMC
>