HTML5 URL vs. IRI vs. URI...

(on behalf of the I18N Core WG)

During a recent discussion of this thread, our working group noted that Section 2.5.1 defines the term "valid URL" using four bullet points. The third bullet point says:

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The URL is a valid IRI reference and its query component contains no unescaped non-ASCII characters.
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This definition isn't quite complete. "Non-ASCII characters" can be escaped in lots of ways using a wide variety of character encodings. You should mention the use of UTF-8 to escape non-ASCII characters or (better?) reference section 3.1 of IRI (3987).

[We are still discussing the response to the main part of the thread.]

Addison

Addison Phillips
Chair -- W3C Internationalization Core WG

Internationalization is not a feature.
It is an architecture.

Received on Thursday, 21 August 2008 21:00:05 UTC