- From: Suzanne Topping <stopping@rochester.rr.com>
- Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 12:50:59 -0500
- To: <www-html@w3.org>
----- Original Message ----- From: Pillai, Girish <Girish_Pillai@bmc.com> > > Are Unicode or Multibyte characters allowed in URLs? Specifically can I use > something like:- > > htp://<Japanese-kanji>.<Japanese-kanji>.com/<japanese-kanji>.html Yes and no. You might want to take a look at the following sites for information on non-ASCII character handling which I am familiar with, however, there may be other sources as well. Resource Identifiers (IURI), Internet Draft, http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-masinter-url-i18n-04.txt, work in progress, June 1999. HTML 4.0 (http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/), Appendix B.2.1 (http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/appendix/notes.html#h-B.2.1) : Non-ASCII characters in URI attribute values. For examples of sites that use Japanese characters in URLs, take a look at: http://RURL.NET/通産省 http://www.barrier-free.co.jp/ (After the red URL on this site (not a link) you will see a URL containing Japanese characters that will take you to a Japanese ministry's webpage. (Thanks to Tony Laszlo for the Japanese sites.) --++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Suzanne Topping Localization Unlimited (Globalization Process Improvement Consulting and Training) 28 Ericsson Street Rochester, New York, 14610-1705 USA Phone: 716-473-0791 Fax: 716-231-2013 Email: stopping@rochester.rr.com (Send me an email to join the North East Localization Special Interest Group, an email distribution list which acts as a discussion forum for localization issues.)
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