Re: "Difficult Characters" draft
Alain LaBont/e'/ (alb@riq.qc.ca)
Wed, 07 May 1997 12:42:05 -0400
Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19970507124205.0073ca78@riq.qc.ca>
Date: Wed, 07 May 1997 12:42:05 -0400
To: "Martin J. Duerst" <mduerst@ifi.unizh.ch>
From: "Alain LaBont/e'/" <alb@riq.qc.ca>
Subject: Re: "Difficult Characters" draft
Cc: URI mailing list <uri@bunyip.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.96.970507104936.245Y-100000@enoshima>
A 11:23 97-05-07 +0200, Martin J. Duerst a écrit :
>I think we pretty much agree that we should discourage URLs with
>accented uppercase letters.
I personally do not, nor any of my colleagues... We would agree with this
if upper case were not allowed.
>> >We don't want to ask the French user more than the US user,
>> >when compared to his/her language abilities. And up to now,
>> >we don't.
>>
>> You do. If equiavlences are not processed adequately, given that
>> equivalence processing exists today. You ask either exact match or match
>> independent of case but dependent on accents... that's not good enough...
>
>Well, I don't actually propose that. I just say that it wouldn't
>be to strange to consider case equivalences but not accent equivalences.
>In sorting, accents also have higher distinctive power than case, don't they.
Yes, in general and no for unprecise matches that render upper and lower
case equivalent.
> "Copy it exactly, with case and everything."
>is much more user friendly, because it is the only one that
>works consistently.
I can agree with that. I think everybody can agree with that.
Alain LaBonté
Québec