From: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp>
Message-Id: <199602070320.MAA18632@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp>
Subject: Re: http charset labelling
To: gtn@ebt.com (Gavin Nicol)
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 96 12:20:06 JST
In-Reply-To: <199602061504.KAA13675@ebt-inc.ebt.com>; from "Gavin Nicol" at Feb 6, 96 10:04 am
> I guess you, I, and a lot of other people, think that if people really
> want to be global, they should avoid using kanji, or whatever, in
> URL's. However, as a persoan at Astec said, and I agree, people *will*
> put kanji into resource names, and they *will* expect it to work. As
> such, I think it better to design a system that can handle *all*
> cases, as users expect them to be handled.
Just make viewers bounce any URL with the 8th bit set or, at least,
mask the bit. '%' notation should still be accepted.
It is also a good idea to do the same thing at the protocol
specification level that:
8th bit of URL MUST be 0. Should a malformed URL is found,
its 8th bit MAY be masked to be 0. Otherwise the URL MUST
be rejected.
Then, non-ASCII URLs will disappear.
You can see that no people are using mail address with kanji, which
is why we can communicate internationally.
Masataka Ohta