Re: "Web addresses in HTML 5" for review (ISSUE-56 urls-webarch)

Marco Neumann wrote:
>> I recall testing with (non-URI) IRIs some time ago, and they were simply not
>> supported.
>>
> 
> Can You give us an example of a "(non-URI) IRI"  ?

Any IRI that contains a non-ASCII character.

That being said, Anne is right in that only IE doesn't seem to support 
IRIs (it sends the ISO8859-1 codes in \xnn notation). Which means that 
currently there is no interoperability for this, and thus, IMHO, XHR (1) 
should just state they aren't allowed.

*If* they're going to be allowed, the next question is whether the 
document encoding has any influence in the way they are converted to 
URIs (which sadly seems to be needed in HTML5).

BR, Julian

Received on Wednesday, 18 March 2009 15:13:56 UTC