Re: heads-up about "new" URLs section in HTML5 editor's draft

Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> Well, space characters and such are handled by everyone. Hopefully the 
> HTML5 algorithm allows for passing UTF-8 as parameter to the algorithm 
> so the query part is always encoded as such, but that doesn't mean there 
> are some other bits that the URI/IRI specifications don't cover.

If you want to enforce UTF-8 in all components, that's good.

That being said, it's not what IE (raw bytes) and Safari (document 
encoding for query) do.

BR, Julian

Received on Saturday, 28 June 2008 07:58:00 UTC