- From: Keld J|rn Simonsen <keld@dkuug.dk>
- Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 20:24:11 +0100
- To: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Cc: uri@bunyip.com
Larry Masinter writes: > > The notation should not be on business cards etc, I think we > > all agree on this. It should not either be in URLs in html docs, > > I also think we all agree on that. > > No, I completely disagree. If people are going to be so foolish as to > put their URLs on their business cards, they should put them there in > a form that is useful. And certainly HTML documents absolutely need to > know how the URL is represented. I am not sure what you are saying here: do you mean that the user should know what charset the URL is encoded in at the server? I think you previously said that URLs are independent of encoding, also Franc,ois said that it is not possible to see on a business card what charset the c-cedille in his name is coded in. This is also a general paradigme in IT standardization: you operate on an abstract character level. Or do you say that a URL should clearly identify where a resource is located? I do not disagree to that one. Keld
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