Self-Experiments
Medical researchers are well known for self-experiments; computer scientists
also have a tendency in that direction. Here is what I'm doing:
About the URI of this page
Background
on internationalized URIs
The official URI of this page is http://www.w3.org/People/D%C3%BCrst/URI.html.
The part of interest, D%C3%BCrst, was set up as follows: Take
my name (Dürst), encode it with
UTF-8, and
apply %HH
escaping.
It may show up in your browser in various ways:
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As D%C3%BCrst: This is the currently official and correct
way to do things.
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As Dürst: This is UTF-8 interpreted as ISO-8859-1
(Latin-1); this is a relict from when the Web only covered Western European
Languages.
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As Dürst: You are working with a browser that is ahead
of its time, or at least very much up to date!
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As <to be completed>: Guess you are working on a MacIntosh.
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As anything else: Well, there are at least as many ways to get this wrong
as there are different character encodings (and there are way too many character
encodings).
Typing %C3%BC into your browser is probably a bit complicated. Therefore,
the server at www.w3.org is set up (for this single case, at the moment)
to also accept Dürst when sent in ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1), and Duerst and
Durst.
If for whatever reason you feel that you have to write my name, please use
the following:
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In any environment where that is possible, please write my name as Dürst.
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If you can just type that in on your computer, that's great (I'm working
on a Japanese system and haven't yet figured out how to do it :-(.
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If you are using HTML, you may be
able to type it in directly (preferred), or you may use
Dürst, Dürst, or with
HTML 4.0,
Dürst, in the HTML source.
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If you are using XML, you may be able to type it in directly (preferred),
or you can use
Dürst or Dürst
in the XML source.
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In environments where the above is not possible, such as pure US-ASCII text
and Japanese email, please write Duerst. This takes into account the fact
that this name is of German origin.