Re: URL internationalization!
Francois Yergeau <[email protected]>
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à 12:23 19-02-97 JST, Masataka Ohta a écrit : >Perhaps, you have never used WWW browsers yet, but, those of us >who have know that we don't need URL human readable unless it >is keyboarded, transcribed or mailed. Those of us who have long used, and even written, browsers, know that they are used very often to submit forms. We also know that these forms can contain arbitrary characters, for instance when one types one's name. We also know that upon submission the content of the form is encoded in an URL, in a contraption called the query part. We also know that servers have problems dealing with such URLs, because the character encoding outside ASCII is undefined by the current Proposed Standard. Hence we have concluded long ago that internationalized, non-ASCII URLs are an unavoidable requirement of a *World Wide* Web, and some of us are trying to do something to end the sorry state of affairs where an exagerated "universal typeability" requirement, roundly ignored in current practice, takes precedence over basic functionality in the standards. Mail is a non-issue, MIME is there to allow transmitting anything, be it binary images, sound bits or arbitrary characters. -- François Yergeau <[email protected]> Alis Technologies Inc., Montréal Tél : +1 (514) 747-2547 Fax : +1 (514) 747-2561