[idn] idn-uri

["Bruce Thomson" <bthomson@fm-net.ne.jp>]

Martin,

I'd like to ask for a clarification of the idn-uri draft. As I understand
it, URIs should be able to contain %-escaped UTF-8 characters
in their domain name portions. So for instance when writing an
A HREF link in an HTML page, one could specify an idn through
an escape sequence.

My question is, since most people write HTML using various local
code pages, do you envision that it would also be possible to write
a link in HTML using the local encoding? The browser would then
translate to the appropriate escape sequence before putting
it on the wire. Or, do you want the HTML author to handle this?

Bruce