- From: Christophe Strobbe <christophe.strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be>
- Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 21:55:08 +0200
- To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
Hi Ineke, At 21:28 26/05/2005, Ineke van der Maat wrote: >Hello Carlos, > >You wrote: >>Anreference to XML 1.1 should be removed, as many experts in the field >>are explicitly recommending *not* to use it because of its breaking of >>backwards compatibility (white space handling, name characters, etc.), >>unless you want to write element names in Ethiopic (Amharic, Geez, etc.), >>Burmese, Cambodian, Mongolian, Dvihehi or Yi syllabary [1] > >And how is this for urls and domain names? it is e.g. possible to register >a domain name/url in burmese characters and also many others like chinese >or japanese ones. I think URLs are already covered by other "standards" (RFC 1738 [1] for URLs, and RFC 2396 [2] for URIs). I don't know the status of "internationalised URLs". For URI encoding programs, see [3]. Regards, Christophe [1] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt [2] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt [3] http://www.w3.org/International/O-URL-code.html >Greetings > >Ineke van der Maat > -- Christophe Strobbe K.U.Leuven - Departement of Electrical Engineering - Research Group on Document Architectures Kasteelpark Arenberg 10 - 3001 Leuven-Heverlee - BELGIUM tel: +32 16 32 85 51 http://www.docarch.be/
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