Re: Error handling in URIs

From: Frank Ellermann <nobody@xyzzy.claranet.de> Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 01:40:05 +0200 To: uri@w3.org Message-ID: <g3s0hc$s1e$1@ger.gmane.org> · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0+W3C-0.50 : Tuesday, 24 June 2008 23:39:11 GMT

Anne van Kesteren wrote:

> I think the problem is that currently no specification says how
> to construct a URI from a bunch of Unicode characters while 
> taking into account that the path component always needs to be
> in UTF-8 and the query component in the document encoding.

Taking false assumptions into account always results in "do what
you like", as they let us prove in elementary courses.  The IRI
spec. is RFC 3987, not what some versions of Firefox did or do.

 Frank