RE: New version of Multilingual Web Addresses article published

I typed it into Firefox (after replacing the ?? with the aleph and beh) and
landed on a page that said:

[[
Hi there
The name of this file is Alif Ba (in Arabic Utf8) dot txt
]]

The URI in the address bar currently shows:
http://www.w3c.org.ma/tmp/%D8%A7%D8%A8.txt
which are indeed the escaped bytes in UTF-8 underlying the alif+beh.

So, yes, it works ! ;-)

RI


============
Richard Ishida
W3C

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Publication blog:
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Najib Tounsi [mailto:ntounsi@emi.ac.ma] 
> Sent: 22 September 2004 17:30
> To: Richard Ishida
> Cc: 'GEO'
> Subject: Re: New version of Multilingual Web Addresses 
> article published
> 
> Sorry, the chewed characters were Alif and Ba in Arabic.
> I hope that the "IRI" worked. In anyway, it should show you a 
> list of 3 files with a name containing NON-ASCII characters.
> (http://www.w3c.org.ma/tmp/)
> 
> Richard Ishida wrote:
> 
> >My mailer chewed up the original characters, but assuming 
> that they were something like Arabic characters, I would say 
> 'Yes, this is an IRI'.
> >
> >RI
> >
> >
> >============
> >Richard Ishida
> >W3C
> >
> >contact info:
> >http://www.w3.org/People/Ishida/
> >
> >W3C Internationalization:
> >http://www.w3.org/International/
> >
> >Publication blog:
> >http://people.w3.org/rishida/blog/
> > 
> > 
> >
> >  
> >
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: Najib Tounsi [mailto:ntounsi@emi.ac.ma]
> >>Sent: 22 September 2004 14:36
> >>To: Richard Ishida
> >>Cc: GEO
> >>Subject: Re: New version of Multilingual Web Addresses article 
> >>published
> >>
> >>Richard Ishida wrote:
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >>>I took into consideration all the comments received and
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>produced a new
> >>    
> >>
> >>>draft at http://www.w3.org/International/articles/idn-and-iri/
> >>> 
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>According to the definition "We will refer to web addresses that 
> >>contain characters outside those defined by RFC 2396 (ie. roughly 
> >>stated, non-ASCII characters) as Internationalized Resource 
> >>Identifiers or IRIs."
> >>
> >>Is the following IRI ?
> >>http://www.w3c.org.ma/tmp/??.txt
> >>
> >>Najib
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >>>Cheers,
> >>>RI
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>============
> >>>Richard Ishida
> >>>W3C
> >>>
> >>>contact info:
> >>>http://www.w3.org/People/Ishida/
> >>>
> >>>W3C Internationalization:
> >>>http://www.w3.org/International/
> >>>
> >>>Publication blog:
> >>>http://people.w3.org/rishida/blog/
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> 
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>--
> >>Najib TOUNSI (mailto:tounsi@w3.org)
> >>Bureau W3C au Maroc (http://www.w3c.org.ma/) Ecole Mohammadia 
> >>d'Ingenieurs, BP 765 Agdal-RABAT Maroc (Morocco) Phone : +212
> >>(0) 37 68 71 74  Fax : +212 (0) 37 77 88 53
> >>Mobile: +212 (0) 61 22 00 30
> >>
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> 
> --
> Najib TOUNSI (mailto:tounsi@w3.org)
> Bureau W3C au Maroc (http://www.w3c.org.ma/) Ecole Mohammadia 
> d'Ingenieurs, BP 765 Agdal-RABAT Maroc (Morocco) Phone : +212 
> (0) 37 68 71 74  Fax : +212 (0) 37 77 88 53
> Mobile: +212 (0) 61 22 00 30
> 
> 
>

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