Re: Some thoughts on character decomposition

From: John Cowan (cowan@locke.ccil.org)
Date: Mon Jun 07 1999 - 14:51:51 EDT


Peter_Constable@sil.org wrote:

> That's what *supposed* to be in a URL. What I'm saying is this: if someone types
> a URL in a document, I may want to copy that URL and paste it into the address
> window of my browser. But if the author added ZWSPs to the URL to deal with line
> breaking, then I may encounter problems when I try to use the URL in my browser.

Ah, I see. IOW, a window into which URLs can be pasted should
reject non-ASCII characters, or perhaps ask if they should be
re-encoded.

-- 
John Cowan	http://www.ccil.org/~cowan		cowan@ccil.org
	You tollerday donsk?  N.  You tolkatiff scowegian?  Nn.
	You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
		Clear all so!  'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)



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