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Re: [idn] URL encoding in html page

At 10:21 02/03/26 +0900, Soobok Lee wrote:
>>Yes. But, legacy encodings are often revised or there may be new born 
>>legacy encoding.
>>What and how much does that affect the stable operation of  IDN  in 
>>networks of various versions of
>>IDN-aware applications?
>
>Answering just for the Web case:
>
>An old browser will not understand a new encoding. So it won't be
>able to display the page, nor it won't be able to resolve natively
>encoded domain names. To use a new encoding, people will have to
>upgrade to a new browser version.
>
>Regards,    Martin.

#-#-#  Martin J. Du"rst, I18N Activity Lead, World Wide Web Consortium
#-#-#  mailto:duerst@w3.org   http://www.w3.org/People/D%C3%BCrst