Hi > 3. Use real international characters in the URI, e.g. > > <http://dbpedia.org/property/größe> > > I'm not quite sure if this is possible. RDF supposedly supports IRIs > (the new style of i18ned URIs that can contain Unicode letters), and > XML can certainly use these characters in element names, so it > *should* be possible. But this is somewhat uncharted territory, > someone would have to dig through the relevant specs to see what > exactly is or is not allowed, and from prior experience I would expect > a lot of trouble with tools in our toolchain that are not quite > Unicode-ready.
I definitely want this third approach, not only for properties, but also for the resource names (URIs). %encoded names are totally unusable for non-western language users. Instead, if DBPedia employs IRI for those names, it will be really very, very good news for us ! I have certain amount of experience to use Japanese characters in RDF URIrefs (IRIs), and found most RDF libraries can handle IRIs. Exceptions are characters in compatibility areas in Unicode (e.g. Japanese counterparts to ASCII signs/punctuations etc), which some libraries cannot use as local name of an URI (not necessarily causes errors, but cannot generate correct local name). I'd not be able to involve in programming itself, but happy to provide information as far as I can. best regards, -- @prefix : <http://www.kanzaki.com/ns/sig#> . <> :from [:name "KANZAKI Masahide"; :nick "masaka"; :email "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"]. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Dbpedia-discussion mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dbpedia-discussion
