- From: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp>
- Date: Wed, 7 Feb 96 12:20:06 JST
- To: gtn@ebt.com (Gavin Nicol)
- Cc: masinter@parc.xerox.com, keld@dkuug.dk, uri@bunyip.com
> I guess you, I, and a lot of other people, think that if people really > want to be global, they should avoid using kanji, or whatever, in > URL's. However, as a persoan at Astec said, and I agree, people *will* > put kanji into resource names, and they *will* expect it to work. As > such, I think it better to design a system that can handle *all* > cases, as users expect them to be handled. Just make viewers bounce any URL with the 8th bit set or, at least, mask the bit. '%' notation should still be accepted. It is also a good idea to do the same thing at the protocol specification level that: 8th bit of URL MUST be 0. Should a malformed URL is found, its 8th bit MAY be masked to be 0. Otherwise the URL MUST be rejected. Then, non-ASCII URLs will disappear. You can see that no people are using mail address with kanji, which is why we can communicate internationally. Masataka Ohta
Received on Tuesday, 6 February 1996 22:35:34 UTC