% From: Francois Yergeau <yergeau@alis.ca> % >From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com> % >URLs are written with characters, not octets. The characters in a URL % >are used to represent octets, not characters. %=20 % Technically, yes. And octets above 127 are stuck with the nice "%XX" % representation, because there is no agreement on what characters % should represent them. Which is at the heart of the issue at hand: % URLs are used to name and locate Internet resources, and only those % whose language can be represented by ASCII (English and Swahili) can % have meaningful (to them) names. I can be dead wrong, but I don't see any problem in having a URL with a non-meaningful name, as long as I can reach the resource.=20 I stick to ASCII in the names of my own files, but if I had a=20 document under http://beatles.cselt.stet.it/Novit=E0.html I believe that everyone would read a definite character for %E0 (conversion is local) = and get my document using his character. .mau.Received on Monday, 29 January 1996 02:58:10 UTC
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