Dan.Oscarsson@malmo.trab.se writes about URLs in more than ASCII. I would propose that URLs be written in the charset of the document that references the url, possibly enhanced with the extensions that we make to get further characters, for example &a-ring; or &#xxxx; This is the most natural way - users are then only restricted to the charset that they use anyway, and normal HTML rules can just prevail. If a server will understand this code it has to have the capabilities to understand the extended URL notation anyway, eg. by adequate charset conversion software. I think that just using some kind of UCS would make it hard when we have an environment where the html is in 8859-1 - that would be mixing apples and oranges and thus very hard to maintain. KeldReceived on Sunday, 28 January 1996 11:11:23 UTC
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