- From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 01:42:23 PDT
- To: "Martin J. Duerst" <mduerst@ifi.unizh.ch>
- CC: "Alain LaBont/e'/" <alb@riq.qc.ca>, URI mailing list <uri@bunyip.com>
> > 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. > > To be more precise, could you then agree to the suggestion > that uppercase accented letters should be discouraged in > URLs intended for a general "France-French" audience, given > as an example of how case might affect URLs, the reason for > this being the current widespread use of keyboards that make > it difficult to enter such characters? > > Regards, Martin. This is the slippery slope: when you slide all the way down it, you wind up discouraging URLs with any non-ASCII letters, for the reason that "someone is likely to be confused and enter them wrong". Drawing the boundary higher and yet having something reliable is hard; you are brave to try. Larry
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