- From: Alain LaBont/e'/ <alb@riq.qc.ca>
- Date: Wed, 07 May 1997 12:42:05 -0400
- To: "Martin J. Duerst" <mduerst@ifi.unizh.ch>
- Cc: URI mailing list <uri@bunyip.com>
A 11:23 97-05-07 +0200, Martin J. Duerst a écrit : >I think we pretty much agree that we should discourage URLs with >accented uppercase letters. I personally do not, nor any of my colleagues... We would agree with this if upper case were not allowed. >> >We don't want to ask the French user more than the US user, >> >when compared to his/her language abilities. And up to now, >> >we don't. >> >> You do. If equiavlences are not processed adequately, given that >> equivalence processing exists today. You ask either exact match or match >> independent of case but dependent on accents... that's not good enough... > >Well, I don't actually propose that. I just say that it wouldn't >be to strange to consider case equivalences but not accent equivalences. >In sorting, accents also have higher distinctive power than case, don't they. Yes, in general and no for unprecise matches that render upper and lower case equivalent. > "Copy it exactly, with case and everything." >is much more user friendly, because it is the only one that >works consistently. I can agree with that. I think everybody can agree with that. Alain LaBonté Québec
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