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Re: [idn] URL encoding in html page

At 17:14 02/03/22 +0900, Bruce Thomson wrote:
>Encodings of anything on an HTML page are an issue as well. Various
>methods are already defined for the codeset to be determined, so
>whether UTF-8, legacy encodings, or ACE are used, there shouldn't
>be a problem. If uses a different encoding for the URL from the rest
>he will have a problem, but that's no different than if he tried to mix
>two different legacy encodings in his text without intervening META
>tags.

Just to avoid further misunderstandings:

Any single HTML document is in a single encoding. Mixing encodings
is not possible. Using multiple <meta> tags to try to do this
won't work.

Regards,   Martin.

#-#-#  Martin J. Du"rst, I18N Activity Lead, World Wide Web Consortium
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