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Re: [idn] universal typability
>Aaron wrote:
>Well, %c3%a5 is going to happen in URI path names, so I guess people
>will get used to it. If they 'accepted' http:// then %c3%a5 will
>probably be accepted also. (It's interesting that MSIE has started to
>implement %HH escaping in hostnames already.)
This show one of the problems Kent is talking about.
A URL like: http://www.gås.net/gås.html
could look like: http://www.8wahdfhud.net/g%c3%a5s.html
if we use an opaque scheme for domain names.
The %-encoding should not be used in the domain name part.
Think about the mess otherwise:
Should I do ftp www.8wahdfhud.net or www.g%c3%a5s.net?
Why does ftp www.8wahdfhud.net work but not ftp www.g%c3%a5s.net.
But in my browser ftp://www.g%c3%a5s.net/ does work.
If we use ASCII compatibility encodings, the same object must
be encoded using the same scheme everywhere, if possible.
What a mess otherwise.
Dan