Further research has revealed that, in any case, that use of %FC in a URI to represent ü is inappropriate. HTTP URIs are only defined when the percent-encodings represent US-ASCII characters. If they do not, it is not specified how they should be interpreted; however, modern specifications such as RFC 3987, Internationalized Resource Identifiers, dictate that they be interpreted as UTF-8. RFC 3986, defining URIs, also recommends that future URI schemes that allow for character sets beyond ASCII, use percent-encoded UTF-8.
Firefox, it turns out, is smart enough to treat both %FC by itself (which is not a valid UTF-8 encoding), and %C3%BC (the UTF-8 encoding of ü) the same (which is apparently what the W3C recommends). Konqueror, unfortunately, currently treats the latter even worse than the first; both are broken. ** Bug watch added: KDE Bug Tracking System #55177 http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55177 ** Also affects: kdebase (upstream) via http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55177 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- misinterpreted chars with file:// links in iso8859-x encoded docs https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/50213 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
