- From: Frank Ellermann <nobody@xyzzy.claranet.de>
- Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:48:54 +0200
- To: www-validator@w3.org
Raija Ylonen wrote: > www.ylöjärventaideyhdistys.fi > When I try to validate it, I get error messages. Works for me. IOW when I clicked on your string my MUA *guessed* that this is a http IRI to be handled by a Web browser, based on the "www". The MUA also knew that your message uses Latin-1 (iso-8859-1) as its charset, noted in the Content-Type header field: <http://article.gmane.org/gmane.org.w3c.validator/10999/raw> My OS then informed the Web browser on duty that an IRI <http://www.ylöjärventaideyhdistys.fi> requires its attention. The browser on duty was Firefox 2, and FF2 can transform IRIs with the domain in any supported non-ASCII charset into equivalent URIs: <URL:http://www.xn--yljrventaideyhdistys-dzb80b.fi/> Actually I'm not sure at which point the IRI was transformed into an URI, but I know that FF2 can do this for RFC 3987 <i-host> names in an IRI. What went wrong for you is that you tried to copy and paste the IRI into the "Address" field of the <http://validator.w3.org> Web form. When I try it, the Latin-1 to UTF-8 translation is handled by clipboard + FF2, but after that neither FF2 on my side nor the validator on the other side take care of transforming the IRI into an URL. Of course FF2 cannot know that the field is about IRIs, only the validator knows this. I think the Web form should say "URL" instead of "Address" as long as it does not support IRIs. Frank
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