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Re: Error handling in URIs

From: Frank Ellermann <nobody@xyzzy.claranet.de>
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:05:15 +0200
To: uri@w3.org
Message-ID: <g3s20i$1j4$1@ger.gmane.org> 

Julian Reschke wrote:
 
> IRIs consist of Unicode characters.

In any charset that can be unambiguously transformed to
Unicode code points, not limited to standard Unicode
encodings.  JFTR, of course you know this.

> UTF-8 only enters the picture when an IRI is converted
> to a URI.

+1  And only temporarily before it is percent-encoded,
undistinguishable from percent encoded binary octets.

 Frank
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