- From: Taisuke Yamada <tai@iij.ad.jp>
- Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 19:28:21 +0900
- To: w3c-dist-auth@w3c.org
Hi. Regarding the use of WebDAV in i18n environment, I am assuming that WebDAV spec will be updated (hopefully soon) to refer IRI and CHARMOD. IRI defines i18n-ized format of URI and CHARMOD defines how you can define/implement a spec so it can be inter- nationally deployed. Am I correct, or is this not a decided issue yet? My current concern is that these specs are taking longer than expected (no surprise as they're tackling complex problem). So by the time they arrive, it could turn out that existing implementations (with glitches in i18n) reached a critical mass and simply don't go away after all. Number of implementations supporting UTF-8 is growing, but even some of them are still not interoperable as Unicode has its own issues also (see CHARMOD). It's probably just a matter of time, but the need for a updated WebDAV spec is really wanted. I believe delay in IRI and CHARMOD would impact WebDAV heavily as people frequently use i18n URI. How does it sound to go ahead and clarify support of at least part of the IRI spec in advance, so actual implementation wouldn't be so far away from CHARMOD/IRI when set? I think clarifying URI (and its partial representation) to be %HH encoded form of normalized UTF-8 is a key issue here. References: [IRI] http://www.w3.org/International/O-URL-and-ident http://www.w3.org/International/2002/draft-duerst-iri-00.txt [CHARMOD] http://www.w3.org/TR/charmod/ Regards, -- Taisuke Yamada <tai@iij.ad.jp> Internet Initiative Japan Inc., Technical Planning Division
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