- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 13:15:35 +0100
- To: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- CC: "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
Anne van Kesteren wrote: > On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 12:44:58 +0100, Julian Reschke > <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote: >> looking at <http://annevankesteren.nl/2009/03/more-shrinking-html5>: >> >> "I wonder though whether anyone has actually tested Atom clients. Do >> they really refuse to handle spaces in URLs? Do they really do the >> right thing per the IRI specification and normalize URLs when the >> encoding of the feed is not a Unicode encoding? Do any clients that >> handle IRIs do that properly? I doubt it." >> >> Anne, what kind of normalization are you referring to, and how is the >> encoding of the feed relevant for that? > > See variant b of Step 1 of the algorithm defined in section 3.1 of RFC > 3987. Interesting. That distinction doesn't make sense to me. Why normalize when the source is ISO8859-1, and not when it was UTF-8? And what if the consumer doesn't even know the encoding (is the source encoding part of the XML infoset? I guess not). BR, Julian
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