- From: Frank Ellermann <nobody@xyzzy.claranet.de>
- Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 21:43:14 +0100
- To: www-international@w3.org
Richard Ishida wrote: > http://www.w3.org/International/articles/idn-and-iri/#work > Comments are being sought on the revised section of this > article entitled "Does it work?" prior to final completion. - Note that, as a temporary fallback solution until IDN is widely - supported, content authors who want to point to a resource - using an IDN could write the link text in native characters, but - put a punycode representation in the href attribute. This is - not an ideal solution, but it would guarantee that the user would - be able to link to the resource, whatever platform they used. + Note that, as a simple fallback solution until IDN is revised and + widely supported, content authors who want to point to a resource + using an IDN should write the link text in native characters, and + put a punycode representation in the href attribute. This is an + ideal solution because it guarantees that the user would be able + to link to the resource, whatever platform they used. Nothing's wrong with the URI form of an IRI when used in a href or similar contexts. Frank
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