Re: Error handling in URIs

Ian Hickson scripsit:

> > So this is an IRI, no URI, and invalid in document types permitting only 
> > URIs.
> 
> Well there's no question that it's invalid, the question is what should 
> browsers do with it.

The href values you have shown us *are* valid IRIs.  It's that browsers
transform them to URIs using a different and incompatible set of
conventions from RFC 3987.  Since part of the purpose of HTML5 is to
retrospectively document browser behavior, it is entirely appropriate
that this non-3987 mapping be documented there.

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