Re: Using UTF-8 for non-ASCII Characters in URLs from Larry Masinter on 1997-04-30 (uri@w3.org from April 1997)

From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 21:09:42 PDT
To: "Michael Kung <MKUNG.US.ORACLE.COM>" <MKUNG@us.oracle.com>
CC: uri@bunyip.com
Message-ID: <3366C606.786A@parc.xerox.com>

This isn't just a "small point", it's essential:

The only way to guarantee "round trip" is to stick to the smallest
repertoire of characters. Clearly you shouldn't enter "http" as
wide characters, and if you have 'wide characters' that need
to be distinguished from ascii characters, you should encode them
in hex-encoded-UTF8 always.

Received on Wednesday, 30 April 1997 00:10:45 UTC