- From: Gavin Nicol <gtn@ebt.com>
- Date: Sun, 18 Feb 1996 20:01:09 -0500
- To: mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp
- Cc: keld@dkuug.dk, dupuy@cs.columbia.edu, uri@bunyip.com
>> To me it means that the URL is hidden and can be anything so it >> does not matter then if it is encoded in a special charset or not. > >On browsers, yes, it is hidden. So, it is meaningless to use >a special charset. The point is that if I receive a URL, by whatever means, and then I type it into the "go to" field of any browser, then when it is sent to the server, the server has no idea what encoding is being used. The actual indication of the encoding should be hidden from the user, but it is still important for it to be there, because even for ASCII names, maybe the user entered it in zenkaku.
Received on Sunday, 18 February 1996 20:03:29 UTC