- From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2002 08:34:51 -0700
- To: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Cc: w3c-i18n-ig@w3.org, www-tag@w3.org
Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote: > > Unfortunately that horse has left the barn. The namespaces spec already > states that namespace URIs are compared character for character. Current > interpretation of that and current software practice is that ~ and %7e > and %7E are *not* the same. Well, in point of fact I think that %7e and %7E are the same in any rational world, and I think we should try to get there. The namespaces spec says "character by character" largely because this issue hadn't occurred to us at that time. I think that we could choose to reinterpret the term right now with generally beneficial effect and with minimal software breakage. I also think that we could write down a set of carefully limited circumstances where software could un-%-escape before comparing, once again to beneficial effect and with minimal breakage. Having said that, I'll have to go back and carefully re-read the dialogue between Martin/Misha/Chris to get a better understanding and find out if I'm wrong. -Tim
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