IRIs

draft-duerst-iri-05.txt

Equivalent to URIs, but allow Unicode characters

Protocol effects defined by IRI-to-URI conversion:

• In general: conversion to UTF-8 and escaping with %HH (e.g. path part, query part,...).

  Example: http://www.w3.org/People/Dürst => http://www.w3.org/People/D%C3%BCrst

• Exception for host part in generic syntax: conversion to punycode

  Example: http://räksmörgås.josefsson.org => http://xn--rksmrgs-5wao1o.josefsson.org