Re: URL internationalization!

A 12:49 97-02-20 JST, Masataka Ohta a écrit :
>If you don't want to insulate yourself within ISO-8859-1 community,
>don't use ISO-8859-1.

I am surprised that you said in an earlier note that you say ISO/IEC 2022
is not a problem and that you can't process ISO/IEC 8859-1 which is just a
subset of ISO/IEC 2022 code extension etchnique. If you support ISO/IEC
2022 you have to support all of the ISO/IEC SC2 character set registry. You
have to go to the limit of your own arguments.

>The more conservative you send, the more people can read it.
>
>ASCII script is rich enough to denote French, Japanese, Thai,
>Arabic, Hindi...

How do you distinguish in ASCII:

ENFANTS LEGITIMES DE LOUIS XIV and
ENFANTS LÉGITIMÉS DE LOUIS XIV ?

Just curious... French can't be vehicled in ASCII. Period.

I must also tell you that you mix "script" and "character set". ASCII is a
character set, the Latin characters are a script. The Latin script includes
many more characters than the character repertoire of ASCII.

Alain LaBonté
Québec