- From: Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 18:50:39 +0100
- To: "'Najib Tounsi'" <ntounsi@emi.ac.ma>, "'Deborah Cawkwell'" <deborah.cawkwell@bbc.co.uk>
- Cc: <public-i18n-geo@w3.org>
Hi Najib, See notes below... > -----Original Message----- > From: public-i18n-geo-request@w3.org > [mailto:public-i18n-geo-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Najib Tounsi > Sent: 09 September 2004 14:52 > To: Deborah Cawkwell > Cc: public-i18n-geo@w3.org > Subject: Re: Feedback: Using non-ASCII characters in Web addresses > > > Just about ASCII CHARACTERS. > > It may be worth to specify what do the expressions "ASCII CHARACTERS" > and "NON-ASCII CHARACTERS" cover? The use of ASCII is a little loose here, since as mentioned in the beginning of the article, there are slightly different specifications for appropriate character sets in URIs and Domain Name usage. > With the usage, ASCII may refer to the US-ASCII CHARACTER > [00..7F] (only > 7bits) or the PC-ASCII-CHARACTER (accent extension (the whole > 8 bits)). This is usually referred to as ANSI, rather than ASCII. ASCII is a term used to refer to a 7-bit encoding. ANSI is the 8-bit encoding that includes accented characters. Another name for the 8-bit ISO encoding ISO-8859-1 is Latin1. > I speak as a french language and thus an AZERTY keyboard user. > Example: > é (é) is coded > - 'E9' in western-ISO-8859-1 (PC-ASCII extension) > - 'C3 A9' in UTF-8 > Which one is NON-ASCII 'E9', 'C3 A9' or both ? Both. hth RI
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