Doug Ewell wrote: > Donald Eastlake 3rd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on the IETF list: > > > There is now a standard way to encode URIs containing arbitrary > > UNICODE characters. This is described in RFC 3275 (which is > > currently a Draft Standard), in Section 4.3.3.1, and in the > > corresponding W3C document and has appeared in other W3C documents, > > for exampe XML Base.
> > I thought CJK users and others wanted *better* compression. > They DO want it, but they want it for protocols where there is a severe length limitation on the encoded form. Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think there's such a restriction on URIs. Presumably any extension to DNS which made Unicode explicity allowed would also allow longer strings? Bruce
