- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 17:27:18 +0100
- To: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Cc: www-i18n-comments@w3.org
* Chris Lilley wrote:
>>> C060 [S] Specifications that define new syntax for URIs, such as a
>>> new URI scheme or a new kind of fragment identifier, MUST specify
>>> that characters outside the US-ASCII repertoire are encoded using
>>> UTF-8 and %HH-escaping.
>
>>> This is in accordance with Guidelines for new URL Schemes [RFC 2718],
>>> Section 2.2.5.
>
>While working on implementing this requirement in a specification, it
>was pointed out that requiring escaping for fragment identifiers, while
>safe, is sort of pointless.
If e.g. image/svg+xml does not define how to encode fragment identifiers
then e.g. svg#Bj%F6rn might be legal and it would be highly unclear what
this might match against. Equally, if it does not say that it is based
on UTF-8, implementations might not consider svg#Bj%C3%B6rn to match an
element with id="Björn". Reversing the %xx escaping is atm required for
image/svg+xml, yet most implementations fail to do this, so this is not
pointless to state explicitly.
>while the fragment, ABCD, is not sent to the server and is merely
>applied once the resource and its Media type have been returned. Thus,
>whether the protocol is 8-bit clean is irrelevant, and whether the
>fragment was hexified or not is not detectable by observing the
>implementation.
This depends on information flow requirements. What is testable is
whether the escaping is reversed, something like (in various encodings)
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" version="1.1"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
<rect id="Björn" fill="green" width="100" height="100" />
<rect id="test" fill="red" width="100" height="100" />
<use xlink:href="#Bj%C3%B6rn" />
</svg>
would do. This fails in ASV6, Batik 1.5-dev, Opera 8... For text/html
see http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-html-editor/2002OctDec/0001
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