Let's use IRIs (was: Re: [minutes] i18n telecon 2012-04-04)

Hello Richard, others,

On 2012/04/05 2:26, Richard Ishida wrote:
> http://www.w3.org/2012/04/04-i18n-minutes.html
> Internationalization Core Working Group Teleconference


> Info Share
>
> [7]http://www.w3.org/blog/International/2012/04/03/just-publish
> ed-new-version-of-working-group-note-requirements-for-japanese-
> text-layout-%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%E8%AA%9E%E7%B5%84%E7%89%88%E5%87
> %A6%E7%90%86%E3%81%AE%E8%A6%81%E4%BB%B6/
>
> [7]
> http://www.w3.org/blog/International/2012/04/03/just-published-new-version-of-working-group-note-requirements-for-japanese-text-layout-%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%E8%AA%9E%E7%B5%84%E7%89%88%E5%87%A6%E7%90%86%E3%81%AE%E8%A6%81%E4%BB%B6/

It would be great if we could use IRIs rather than lots of cryptic %xx 
stuff:

http://www.w3.org/blog/International/2012/04/03/just-published-new- 
version-of-working-group-note-requirements-for-japanese-text-layout-日本 
語組版処理の要件/

This would help spread the word, show our technology,..., and so on.

Please note that some browsers show IRIs in their address bar, but use 
%-encoding on copy/paste. I think Firefox currently does it; others may, 
too. This was started at a time when many browsers still didn't accept 
IRIs, but may now be a bit out of date. Opera does the reverse, i.e. 
shows and provides Unicode characters even if you enter %-encoding, 
except for the query part.



> [9]http://www.w3.org/blog/International/2012/04/03/w3c-workshop
> -call-for-participation-the-multilingual-web-linked-open-data-a
> nd-multi%C2%ADlingual%C2%ADweb-lt-requirements/
>
> [9]
> http://www.w3.org/blog/International/2012/04/03/w3c-workshop-call-for-participation-the-multilingual-web-linked-open-data-and-multi%C2%ADlingual%C2%ADweb-lt-requirements/

This would be:
http://www.w3.org/blog/International/2012/04/03/w3c-workshop-call-for-participation-the-multilingual-web-linked-open-data-and-multi­lingual­web-lt-requirements/

But there's a problem: There are two hidden soft hyphens (­) hidden 
in the second "multi­lingual­web". So when you copy/paste this:

http://www.w3.org/blog/International/2012/04/03/w3c-workshop-call-for-participation-the-multilingual-web-linked-open-data-and-multi­lingual­web-lt-requirements/

you get to the right page, but when you try to type it (or copy the next 
one, which looks exactly the same) you get "Not Found".

http://www.w3.org/blog/International/2012/04/03/w3c-workshop-call-for-participation-the-multilingual-web-linked-open-data-and-multilingualweb-lt-requirements/

I'd strongly recommend to keep such characters out of IRIs (and to keep 
the corresponding %-encoding out of URIs).


Regards,    Martin.