- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@apache.org>
- Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 16:05:29 -0800
- To: Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
- Cc: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>, WWW-Tag <www-tag@w3.org>
> - "It would seem almost wilfully perverse to consider the characters > represented > respectively by %7A and %7a in the example above as different." > > One can certainly argue about the stylistic merit of 'almost willfully > (spelling) > perverse'. But that's not my point. The sentence assumes that %7A and > %7a > represent a character, where in actual fact in an URI (see again > section 2.1 of > http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt) 'z', '%7A', and '%7a' are three > different > ways to represent the byte <7a>, which in turn in most cases (but not > necessarily > guaranteed) represents the character 'z'. That hardly matters. Section 2.1 says that %7A and %7a both represent the same octet, and therefore are guaranteed to be the same character regardless of character encoding. Whether or not that character is 'z' is a different issue. ....Roy
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