- From: Aaron Swartz <aswartz@upclink.com>
- Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 12:07:57 -0500
- To: Devon Smith <devon@taller.pscl.cwru.edu>
- Cc: www-rdf-comments@w3.org, www-i18n-comments@w3.org
On Wednesday, August 1, 2001, at 03:41 PM, Devon Smith wrote:
> Another concern is how strings encoded
> in UTF-8, UTF-16 and other non-ascii, non-latin encodings would be
> dealt with.
I'd suggest that we use what the RDF spec says as a starting
point, namely:
"""Note: Although non-ASCII characters in URIs are not allowed
by [URI], [XML] specifies a convention to avoid unnecessary
incompatibilities in extended URI syntax. Implementors of RDF
are encouraged to avoid further incompatibility and use the XML
convention for system identifiers. Namely, that a non-ASCII
character in a URI be represented in UTF-8 as one or more bytes,
and then these bytes be escaped with the URI escaping mechanism
(i.e., by converting each byte to %HH, where HH is the
hexadecimal notation of the byte value)."""
The i18n WD suggests similarly: http://www.w3.org/TR/charmod/#sec-URIs
I'm not sure what to do about UTF-18 characters, so I'm CCing
the i18n for suggestions.
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