- From: Marcos Caceres <marcosscaceres@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 15:03:45 +1000
- To: "Richard Ishida" <ishida@w3.org>
- Cc: www-international@w3.org, public-appformats@w3.org
Hi Richard, On Dec 4, 2007 2:38 AM, Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org> wrote: > I think, through the various contributions, we have arrived at some text for > http://dev.w3.org/2006/waf/widgets/#zip-archive0 that seems ok to me, with > one exception: the text "Note: To ensure interoperability, authors should > avoid non-ascii characters ". > > For some readers this probably doesn't necessarily reflect what I think was > intended. > > It can be read as a free-ranging statement or general principle that > non-ascii names can and forever will cause interoperability problems. > > I think what you wanted to say is something along the lines of: due to > current implementation issues with the zip format, there may be some > interoperability issues with the use of non-ascii characters at this time. Ok, taking the feedback on board, I rewrote the note: "Note: authors should be aware that, at the time of writing, there are some interoperability issues with regards to using characters outside the ascii-chars for file an folder names in a Zip archive. If an author chooses to use cp437-chars or the UTF8-chars, they should thoroughly test their widgets on various platforms prior to distribution; otherwise it is recommended that authors restrict file and folder names to the ascii-chars." So it's clear, "ascii-chars", "cp437-chars" and "UTF8-chars" link to the appropriate ABNF definitions in the spec. Kind regards, Marcos -- Marcos Caceres http://datadriven.com.au
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