Re: URL internationalization!

"Martin J. Duerst" <[email protected]> Wed, 19 Feb 1997 12:40:05 +0100 (MET)

Newsgroups	gmane.ietf.url
Message-ID	<Pine.SUN.3.95q.970219123840.245D-100000@enoshima>

Masataka -

On Wed, 19 Feb 1997, you wrote:

> > No, I didn't say so. What I said is that the practice of using
> > characters besides ASCII without a specification of how the
> > server will interpret them is not guaranteed to work. In the
> > case of Canada, it will work in many cases because iso-8859-1
> > is well established there in the context of the web. However,
> > it will not work worldwide.
> 
> The moral of the story is that interEuropeanization is not
> internationalization.

Good point. That's why iso-8859-1 is not a good solution and why
we need Unicode/ISO 10646.

Regards,	Martin.