Re: URL internationalization!

À 11:09 97-02-19 +0100, Martin J. Duerst écrit :
>Masataka -
>
>On Wed, 19 Feb 1997, you wrote:
>
>> Alain;
>> 
>> > In Canada that is done all the time... there are URLs in newspapers (in
>> > English and in French), on all TV channels (in many languages), in email
>> > (many languages too), on the radio networks (polyglot), through our ears
>> > (also polyglot (: )... We have to type, transcribe and mail URLs all
the time.
>> > 
>> > So I do not understand the objection to Martin Dürst.
>> 
>> Because you haven't read Martin. You don't have to, though. He
>> said you are not doing that.
>
>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.

Right. That is why I support the idea that you submitted, Martin, that we
decide for a canonical worldwide character set for URLs. It should be
supported everywhere, and if display can't be done temporarily, that data
integrity be preserved at all time so that at some point, copies of copies
of copies will fall on the desk of somebody who can display.

Copies should be able to be cut-and-pasted and preserved integrity too.

Keyboarding is useful requirement too. There is a standard for this, ISO/IEC
14755.

Alain LaBonté
Québec