- From: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp>
- Date: Fri, 9 Feb 96 10:16:15 JST
- To: gtn@ebt.com (Gavin Nicol)
- Cc: masinter@parc.xerox.com, keld@dkuug.dk, uri@bunyip.com
> >Because of duplicated shape of 'A' for Latin and Greek capital > >letter 'A' and alpha, and because of duplicated encoding of Big5, > >encoding information, in general, is no fix for unique conversion > >from shape on a paper to internal code. > > Nor should there be. People map from a glyph to a *character*, which > is quite different to a character code. I have enough trouble mapping > some glyphs to characters. Then, why do you think you can force people to perform the troublesome mapping? > God forbid that I have to memorize the > character codes as well! Don't worry. Some gods are blessing us to give '%' notation. > >Then, non-ASCII URLs will disappear. > > If anyone speaks to you in anything other than English, reject the > sentence. Quite an appealing idea. Sigh... You don't even understand the difference between English and ASCII. My mail address is in ASCII but NOT English, though non-ASCII mail addresses are rejected all around the Internet. Masataka Ohta
Received on Thursday, 8 February 1996 20:27:41 UTC