Michael Wechner wrote:
Josias Thoeny wrote:
But personally I don't think it adds much value to have multi-lingual
urls.
Or do you think it does?
yes, I think so. Just think of Switzerland as a country with four
languages and that
people in the french speaking part complain that the german speaking
part wants to rule ....
well, from a political pov that makes sense. but from an engineering
pov, people have always made a mess of multi-lingual uris. see for example
* punycode alternative urls. baaaaah. a half-assed solution to a real
problem, granted. but nobody has the guts to say, ok, ditch the old dns,
we need unicode. and nobody can answer the dreaded question: what's the
*canonical* url? (btw, remember all the funny double-dot IIS exploits
thanks to the uncountable number of unicode representations of "."?)
* microsoft windows. they localize system folder names (YUCK!), even
though they are by default hidden from the user's view. how stupid can
you get. i always use variables like %APPDATA% instead of real names,
but guess who produces an erroneous "Application Data" folder on my
german xp clients (where it should say "Anwendungsdaten")?
the internet exploder of one microsoft corporation. now, tell me: if
even the original implementors screw up localized urls, who's going to
get it right?
thus, --votes for multilingual urls. most people don't have to care
about them anyways (you google and then click, nobody types or reads
them anymore), so why pollute namespaces?
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