On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 4:11 AM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@annevk.nl> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 12:02 PM, Gervase Markham <gerv@mozilla.org>
> wrote:
> > It's not been possible to register names like ☺☺☺.com for some time now;
> > that's a big clue.
>
> I don't think it is. There's sites out that rely on underscore working
> in subdomains. You cannot register a domain name with an underscore.
>
>
> > (Are your friends really using http://xn--74h.example.com/ ?)
>
> Yeah (with "example" replaced). Renders fine in Safari, too.
>
>
> > IIRC, we must have broken a load of URLs when we decided that %-encoding
> > in URLs should always be interpreted as UTF-8 (in RFC 3986), whereas
> > beforehand it depended on the charset of the page or form producing the
> > link. Why did we do that? Because the new way was better for the future,
> > and some breakage was acceptable to attain that goal.
>
> Actually, I don't think we did. And the reason for that is that the
> non-ASCII usage was primarily in the query string.
Well, there are tons of urls whose path part have non-ASCII characters.
They're very common in Korea, for instance.
> And as it happens,
> we still use the character encoding to go from code points to
> percent-escaped byte code points there. The IETF STD doesn't admit to
> this, which is part of the reason why we have
> http://url.spec.whatwg.org/ now.
>
>
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