- From: Mike Schinkel <mikeschinkel@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 14:51:12 -0400
- To: "'Mike Brown'" <mike@skew.org>
- Cc: <uri@w3.org>
Mike Brown wrote:
> Mike Schinkel wrote:
> > > XForms 2.0 is the first spec to say to use UTF-8, but that's too
> > > little, too late.
> >
> > Why "too little?"
>
> Too little in that XForms 1.0 and 1.1 (which is what I meant
> when I said 2.0,
> sorry) call for "non-ASCII and reserved" characters (from RFC
> 2396 + 2732) to be percent-encoded. I suggested in Feb 2005
> that the spec be changed to instead say "non-unreserved"
> characters and to make reference to RFC 3986 so that it
> wouldn't exclude "%" "#" "(" ")" "'" "!" "*" and any other
> ASCII-range characters that should be percent-encoded. This
> was apparently not considered an issue.
Ah, thanks for the clarification.
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