Re: UTF-8 in URIs

In message <CACuKZqF0oxcpJWYnDzzVSwzeJgQ4K18gZCynyYh0uJwY=4xHtA@mail.gmail.com>
, Zhong Yu writes:

>Can you give an example where an intermediary benefits from decoding
>URI octets into unicodes?

Not necessarily from converting them into unicodes, but normalising
them using whatever rule we might prefer, so that cache-lookups
will always find the same object, no matter how the URI was mangled
with encodings.


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Received on Wednesday, 15 January 2014 20:54:35 UTC