RE: Some thoughts on character decomposition

From: Jonathan Rosenne (rosenne@qsm.co.il)
Date: Tue Jun 08 1999 - 02:46:58 EDT


> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Cowan [mailto:cowan@locke.ccil.org]
> Sent: Monday, June 07, 1999 8:47 PM
> To: Unicode List
> Subject: Re: Some thoughts on character decomposition
>
>
> 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.

I would rather that it does the necessary conversions silently and
transparently, both ways.

Jony

>
> --
> 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.
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