RE: Percent-encoding in host

Got it. I knew ASCII characters were valid UTF-8 sequences so I'm not sure why that sentence tripped me up. It may be because I assumed the previous sentence, which requires UTF-8 encoding for non-ASCII characters, already disallowed non-UTF-8 encoded characters in host. Anyway, I just read too much into it.  Thanks for the clarification.
 
Dave
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From: Martin Duerst [mailto:duerst@w3.org]
Sent: Wed 7/21/2004 9:59 PM
To: Dave McAlpin; uri@w3.org
Subject: Re: Percent-encoding in host



Hello Dave,

UTF-8 includes US-ASCII, so there should be no problem.
You say 'From the context, a "UTF-8 character sequence" seems to apply only to
non-ASCII characters.'. How did you come to that conclusion?

Regards,   Martin.

At 17:34 04/07/21 -0400, Dave McAlpin wrote:
>I apologize for raising this issue so late in the process, but I'm
>confused by the sentence in the last paragraph of section 3.2.2 that
>reads, "URI producing applications must not use percent-encoding in host
>unless it is used to represent a UTF-8 character sequence." From the
>context, a "UTF-8 character sequence" seems to apply only to non-ASCII
>characters.  Is the rule effectively that you're not allowed to
>percent-encode ASCII characters in host?
>If that's the case, what's the proper way to represent characters in the
><sub-delims> set that appear in <reg-name> as data, not as delimitters?
>
>Dave
>