Re: [idn] URL encoding in html page

["J. William Semich" <bill@mail.nic.nu>]

try the links in various encodings on these pages ....

http://www.worldnames.net/pages/demo.cfm

Bill

At 12:13 AM 3/29/2002, Adam M. Costello wrote:
> > These also all will work for hypertext links on a Web page
>
>That depends on how the browser handles hrefs containing non-ASCII.
>This is invalid HTML, so there's no telling what will happen.  The HTML
>spec recommends that the browser convert the non-ASCII bytes to %HH
>escapes, but I think that makes the host name lookup even more likely to
>fail (unless the browser unescapes the host name just before doing the
>lookup).
>
>AMC