- From: Gavin Nicol <gtn@ebt.com>
- Date: Fri, 9 Feb 1996 16:19:01 -0500
- To: mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp
- Cc: masinter@parc.xerox.com, keld@dkuug.dk, uri@bunyip.com
>> 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? I'm not proposing to force anyone to do anything, but rather, simply give them a choice. You *are* trying to force people to use a non-natural representation. >> 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. I was simply paraphrasing your sentence. If you understood the nuances of English, you would have understood that I find limiting URL's to ASCII to be a sensible as limiting the worlds languages to English.
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