- From: Gavin Nicol <gtn@eps.inso.com>
- Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 16:28:52 -0400
- To: mduerst@ifi.unizh.ch
- CC: www-international@w3.org
>> Query-Encoding: utf8 >> Query-Encoding: shift-jis >> >> is preferrable to Query-UTF8. > >Of course if you have such an alternative suggestion, you >are wellcome to write an internet-draft, too. > >But why should it be preferable? We have discussed this some time >ago. I have argued that upgrading from chaos to labeled chaos >is not a very big step ahead. It is a smaller step than going to UTF-8. >Ideally, URLs should never have contained anything else >than UTF-8. Agreed, though personally, I think URL's should go away. >> Ideally, URL's should never contain queries anyway. > >Thanks for initiating a little bit of philosophical discussion. This is not random philosophical musings. Your proposal is a patch over a broken design. If we had clean seperation, there would be two problems: I18N of naming, and I18N of searches. They could have the same technical resolution (use UTF-8), but that doesn;t mean to say they need to share the same *mechanism*.
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