Re: Question about the character set in HTTP-URLs

2000-08-01 Thread James P. Salsman
... Does anybody know the default codepage in URIs of HTTP? US-ASCII. Don't count on high-bit-set bytes resembling Latin-1 or even working at all on some platforms. However, there is a proposal to incorporate non-ASCII UTF-8 as (multi-)bytes as %xx :

Re: Question about the character set in HTTP-URLs

2000-08-01 Thread Martin J. Duerst
Hello Florian, You are right that currently, there is no well-defined way to include arbitrary characters into URIs, or to interpret URIs and find out which characters they contain. So if you have a file with an a-umlaut and an Euro sign in it, to construct an http URI for it, you have to make