Re: [draft-duerst-iri-bis-06] editorial

On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:52:46 +0200, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>  
wrote:
> Anne van Kesteren wrote:
>> On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:10:18 +0200, Martin J. Dürst  
>> <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp> wrote:
>>> Any better idea for a name? I find "needs to be used" a bit too  
>>> strong, but I guess it's the users' choice, not ours.
>>  HTML5 re-used the term URL. That worked for me. I'm not sure why  
>> "needs to be used" is a bit too strong. Browsers handle URLs the same  
>> everywhere. (Admittedly outside HTML context the encoding is often just  
>> set to UTF-8 by default, but that is not the only part of the algorithm  
>> that matters.)
>
> ...but that's the main difference to LEIRIs, as specified, right?
>
> Julian (still hoping that we're not going to define *two* supersets of  
> IRIs)

I don't know the details of LEIRIs. I thought it did not allow all  
characters, but maybe it does.


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Anne van Kesteren
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Received on Thursday, 10 September 2009 08:59:40 UTC