- From: Jeremy Carroll <jjc@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 17:04:36 +0100
- To: w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
> FWIW, I'm having a separate discussion with Martin Duerst about this issue > with respect to CC/PP (an application of RDF); Martin seems to think the > XML system identifier rules should apply to URI values in RDF -- I'm > pressing for clarity about why this is so, given that URIs per se cannot > contain non-US-ASCII characters. > I think this is a no-brainer from an internationalization point of view. When a non-English speaker wishes to write a meaningful rdf:about or rdf:ID value then they will use non-US ASCII characters. Since URIs are US ASCII somewhere someone has to do the conversion, and the %HH encoding of UTF-8 is the correct conversion to do. It is necessary for a spec to say who does the conversion, and given that RDF/XML is meant to be (barely) end user readable, it should be in their language. Hence the RDF/XML processor needs to do the conversion. Jeremy
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