- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@apache.org>
- Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 16:03:40 -0800
- To: Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
- Cc: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>, WWW-Tag <www-tag@w3.org>
>> 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. > > Section 2.1 indeed says that %7a and %7A both represent the > same octet. However, they are not therefore guaranteed to be > the same character regardless of encoding, because there are > encodings where a single byte is only representing part of > a character, and/or can be used in representing different > characters. If %7E is used and you replace it with %7e, the character does not change, regardless of encoding, and therefore the URI spec does guarantee that the two are equivalent. There is no need to split hairs about whether it is one character of only part of one character -- the result is the same because URI %xx rules govern that part of the encoding. ....Roy
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