RE: New version of Multilingual Web Addresses article published

At 18:41 04/09/22 +0100, Richard Ishida wrote:

>I typed it into Firefox (after replacing the ?? with the aleph and beh)

Good to know this works in Firefox. So mozilla does IRI at least in
some cases!     Regards,     Martin.


>and
>landed on a page that said:
>
>[[
>Hi there
>The name of this file is Alif Ba (in Arabic Utf8) dot txt
>]]
>
>The URI in the address bar currently shows:
>http://www.w3c.org.ma/tmp/%D8%A7%D8%A8.txt
>which are indeed the escaped bytes in UTF-8 underlying the alif+beh.
>
>So, yes, it works ! ;-)
>
>RI
>
>
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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Najib Tounsi [mailto:ntounsi@emi.ac.ma]
> > Sent: 22 September 2004 17:30
> > To: Richard Ishida
> > Cc: 'GEO'
> > Subject: Re: New version of Multilingual Web Addresses
> > article published
> >
> > Sorry, the chewed characters were Alif and Ba in Arabic.
> > I hope that the "IRI" worked. In anyway, it should show you a
> > list of 3 files with a name containing NON-ASCII characters.
> > (http://www.w3c.org.ma/tmp/)
> >
> > Richard Ishida wrote:
> >
> > >My mailer chewed up the original characters, but assuming
> > that they were something like Arabic characters, I would say
> > 'Yes, this is an IRI'.
> > >
> > >RI
> > >
> > >
> > >============
> > >Richard Ishida
> > >W3C
> > >
> > >contact info:
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> > >W3C Internationalization:
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> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >>-----Original Message-----
> > >>From: Najib Tounsi [mailto:ntounsi@emi.ac.ma]
> > >>Sent: 22 September 2004 14:36
> > >>To: Richard Ishida
> > >>Cc: GEO
> > >>Subject: Re: New version of Multilingual Web Addresses article
> > >>published
> > >>
> > >>Richard Ishida wrote:
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>>I took into consideration all the comments received and
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>produced a new
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>>draft at http://www.w3.org/International/articles/idn-and-iri/
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>According to the definition "We will refer to web addresses that
> > >>contain characters outside those defined by RFC 2396 (ie. roughly
> > >>stated, non-ASCII characters) as Internationalized Resource
> > >>Identifiers or IRIs."
> > >>
> > >>Is the following IRI ?
> > >>http://www.w3c.org.ma/tmp/??.txt
> > >>
> > >>Najib
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>>Cheers,
> > >>>RI
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>============
> > >>>Richard Ishida
> > >>>W3C
> > >>>
> > >>>contact info:
> > >>>http://www.w3.org/People/Ishida/
> > >>>
> > >>>W3C Internationalization:
> > >>>http://www.w3.org/International/
> > >>>
> > >>>Publication blog:
> > >>>http://people.w3.org/rishida/blog/
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>--
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> > >>
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> >
> > --
> > Najib TOUNSI (mailto:tounsi@w3.org)
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