From: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp>
Message-Id: <199508170813.RAA10602@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp>
Subject: Re: Globalizing URIs
To: gtn@ebt.com (Gavin Nicol)
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 95 17:13:14 JST
In-Reply-To: <199508150203.WAA03779@ebt-inc.ebt.com>; from "Gavin Nicol" at Aug 14, 95 10:03 pm
> I think people will to work in ASCII is forced to, but I think most
> people *desire* to work in their native language.
What's the problem? Japanese will use Japanese with ASCII Latin
characters.
> We should at the
> very least give people a choice.
No. Anything with local option can't interoperate globally.
Sometimes, localization is the first step toward globalization. But,
it is not the case with URL.
Masataka Ohta