Hello vitalie, On Fri, 12 May 2006 00:20:39 +0300 GMT (12/05/2006, 04:20 +0700 GMT), vitalie vrabie wrote:
vv> correct. the URI's umlauts MUST be %-encoded, so it'll be vv> recognized properly. this is FIRST. You refer to chapter 2.1 of RFC3986: vv> 2.1. Percent-Encoding vv> vv> A percent-encoding mechanism is used to represent a data octet in a vv> component when that octet's corresponding character is outside the vv> allowed set or is being used as a delimiter of, or within, the vv> component. [...] Note that it says "outside the allowed set". But what is the "allowed set"? Chapter 2.0 gives the answer: vv> 2. Characters vv> vv> The URI syntax provides a method of encoding data, presumably for the vv> sake of identifying a resource, as a sequence of characters. The URI vv> characters are, in turn, frequently encoded as octets for transport vv> or presentation. This specification does not mandate any particular vv> character encoding for mapping between URI characters and the octets vv> used to store or transmit those characters. When a URI appears in a vv> protocol element, the character encoding is defined by that protocol; vv> without such a definition, a URI is assumed to be in the same vv> character encoding as the surrounding text. We learn that a specific character set is not mandated. The surrounding text for a German email (or any email containing umlauts) is one of those that allows umlauts. vv> the URI per se must NOT contain any umlauts (again, please read vv> that rfc throughly). it just can be PRESENTED to the user with those. I've read the RFC, and I understand the opposite: It may indeed contain umlauts if in a text that uses a charset allowing umlauts. For example, in an email encoded in Latin-9. In any case, it should not be too difficult to implement what the user needs: Clickable URIs, even though they may contain umlauts. Why do you not want to implement that? -- Cheers, Thomas. Kommt ein Mann in ne Bank: "Haende raus, Geld hoch, ich bin eine Geisel!" - "Gell, Sie wollen's in Schilling?" http://thomas.fernandez.hat-gar-keine-homepage.de/ Message reply created with The Bat! 3.80.03 under Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 2 ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 3.80.03 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html IMPORTANT: To register as a Beta tester, use this link first - http://www.ritlabs.com/en/partners/testers/
