- From: Charles Lindsey <chl@clerew.man.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 11:25:20 -0000
- To: URI <uri@w3.org>
On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 07:12:37 -0000, Martin J. Dürst
<duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp> wrote:
> I have difficulties understanding:
>
> Characters not directly allowed in this part of an
> [RFC3986] URI have to be percent-encoded, minimally anything that is
> not <unreserved>, no ":" (colon), and doesn't belong to the
> <sub-delims>.
>
> I think this may be slightly better:
>
> Characters not directly allowed in this part of an
> [RFC3986] URI have to be percent-encoded. This at a minimum includes
> anything that is not <unreserved>, is not a ":" (colon), and does
> not belong to the <sub-delims>.
Here is the wording I now propose:
According to [RFC 3968], characters that are in <gen-delims> (a subset of
<reserved>) MUST be percent-encoded (though it is not wrong to encode
others). Specifically, the characters allowed in <msg-id-core> that must
be encoded are
"/" "?" "#" "[" and "]"
Note that an agent which seeks to interpret a 'news' URI needs to decode
all these percent-encoded characters before passing it on to an NNTP
server to be acted upon.
Comments anyone?
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