- From: Phillips, Addison <addison@lab126.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 19:12:52 +0000
- To: "public-tracking-comments@w3.org" <public-tracking-comments@w3.org>
- CC: "www-international@w3.org" <www-international@w3.org>
http://www.w3.org/International/track/issues/348
Document: http://www.w3.org/TR/tracking-dnt
This is a WG comment.
Non-ASCII characters are not permitted in extensions. There is a note:
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The extension syntax is restricted to visible ASCII characters that can be parsed as a single word in HTTP and safely embedded in a JSON string without further encoding (section 6.5 Tracking Status Representation). At most one DNT header field can be present in a valid request [HTTP].
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It's unclear why this restriction exists? Non-ASCII characters are useful in many contexts and they work in a JSON string (they can be encoded further using \u escape, but don't have to be). The limitation to ASCII-only may be helpful for other reasons, of course, but these are no spelled out. Can you clarify why extension names have a limited character set?
Addison Phillips
Globalization Architect (Amazon Lab126)
Chair (W3C I18N WG)
Internationalization is not a feature.
It is an architecture.
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