- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:51:26 +0100
On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:46:15 +0100, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke at gmx.de> wrote: > Because it's preferable to the alternative, which is, leaking out the > non-conformant URI/IRI handling into other places. Apparently that is already happening in part anyway due to LEIRIs. Modulo the URL encoding bit (which you can set to always being UTF-8 for non-HTML contexts) I'm not sure what's so bad about allowing a few more characters. > The issue is that it's *not* the same thing. Well, no, not exactly. But they perform essentially the same task, modulo a few characters. And since one is a superset of the other (as long as URL encoding is UTF-8) I don't see a point in having both. -- Anne van Kesteren http://annevankesteren.nl/
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