- From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:08:34 -0700
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: Frank Ellermann <hmdmhdfmhdjmzdtjmzdtzktdkztdjz@gmail.com>, uri@w3.org
Ian Hickson wrote: > That's what HTML5 did until about a week ago. The problem is that doing so > leaves a number of behaviours undefined, as far as I can tell. For > example, what should following the link in this example do, in terms of > the actual URI passed to the networking layer? > > <!DOCTYPE HTML> > <title>Test</title> > <meta charset="ISO-8859-13"> > <p><a href="results.cgi/Ž?Ž">Test</a> > Well, I can't do UTF-8 calculations in my head, but assuming that Unicode character 0x017D encodes in three bytes which are AA, BB, and CC, then it should request this path: results.cgi/%AA%BB%CC?%AA%BB%CC The meta tag is *NOT* considered here. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@metalab.unc.edu Refactoring HTML Just Published! http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0321503635/ref=nosim/cafeaulaitA
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