- From: Najib Tounsi <ntounsi@emi.ac.ma>
- Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 10:42:22 +0000
- To: Frank Ellermann <nobody@xyzzy.claranet.de>
- CC: www-international@w3.org
Frank Ellermann wrote: > 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, I would add "when the link text is itself (or contains) an IDN", since a link text is a always in some native language. > 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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