Prediction for non-ASCII URLs

Hello,

I've been doing some reading about handling of non-ASCII characters in URLs
as presented by Martin J. Dürst and others, and am wondering what might be a
reasonable predicted timeline for when non-ASCII URLs will become
ubiquitous? (By which I mean that that standards, technologies, etc. will
support them and handle them gracefully.)

Any thoughts on this?

Also, can you tell me what the key barriers are to handling non-ASCII
characters? Is it that existing server/router/etc. technology doesn't
provide support?

Thanks in advance for your comments.

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Suzanne Topping
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Received on Monday, 10 January 2000 12:48:01 UTC