Hi;
Sometime back I asked about the support of UNICODE in URLs
and no one replied, then I thought that I should participate in
www discussion list to rise the issue. Unfortunalty I did not had the
time too.
What I think the multilingul URL's issue is related to the Domain
Registration authorities, and Network Information Centers, located
region wise and country wise.
Liwal
----- Original Message -----
From: Suzanne Topping <stopping@rochester.rr.com>
To: Unicode List <unicode@unicode.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2000 3:46 AM
Subject: Fw: Prediction for non-ASCII URLs
> Hello,
> I am forwarding the following notes to this list in the hopes that
someone
> can
> help me understand the current situation with non-ASCII characters in
URLs.
>
> As you will see, Roozbeh provided one response, and that led to further
> questions
> on my part. Since Roozbeh raised the issue of UTF-8, I am hoping that this
> crosses over into Unicode land. Apologies if it is not appropriate for
this
> group.
>
> Suzanne Topping
> Localization Unlimited
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Suzanne Topping <stopping@rochester.rr.com>
> To: www <www-international@w3.org>
> Sent: Monday, January 10, 2000 12:44 PM
> Subject: Prediction for non-ASCII URLs
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I've been doing some reading about handling of non-ASCII characters in
URLs
> as presented by Martin J. Dürst and others, and am wondering what might be
a
> reasonable predicted timeline for when non-ASCII URLs will become
> ubiquitous? (By which I mean that that standards, technologies, etc. will
> support them and handle them gracefully.)
>
> Any thoughts on this?
>
> Also, can you tell me what the key barriers are to handling non-ASCII
> characters? Is it that existing server/router/etc. technology doesn't
> provide support?
>
> Thanks in advance for your comments.
>
> --++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> Suzanne Topping
> Localization Unlimited
>
>
> HERE IS ROOZBEH'S RESPONSE:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Roozbeh Pournader <roozbeh@sina.sharif.ac.ir>
> To: Suzanne Topping <stopping@rochester.rr.com>
> Cc: www <www-international@w3.org>
> Sent: Monday, January 10, 2000 3:04 PM
> Subject: Re: Prediction for non-ASCII URLs
>
> On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Suzanne Topping wrote:
>
> > I've been doing some reading about handling of non-ASCII characters in
> URLs
> > as presented by Martin J. Dürst and others, and am wondering what might
be
> a
> > reasonable predicted timeline for when non-ASCII URLs will become
> > ubiquitous? (By which I mean that that standards, technologies, etc.
will
> > support them and handle them gracefully.)
>
> Internet Explorer 5 already uses that for default. If you use any
> non-ASCII characters in the URL, it will convert it to UTF-8 and %-encode
> it. Perhaps Microsoft Internet Information Server also does that.
>
> --Roozbeh
>
> HERE ARE MY ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS:
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Suzanne Topping <stopping@rochester.rr.com>
> To: www <www-international@w3.org>
> Sent: Monday, January 10, 2000 4:20 PM
> Subject: Re: Prediction for non-ASCII URLs
>
>
> > Thanks for this response Roozbeh.
> >
> > Pardon my ignorance on this subject, but can you tell me how this ends
up
> > impacting the user? Is it transparent? For example, if a user enters a
URL
> > which includes Japanese characters, does the browser display the
converted
> > URL in the address it displays from then on? Or is this converting and
> > encoding handled behind the scenes, and the display remains in Japanese?
> >
> > My point is that if the display is converted straight away, then the
user
> > impact is still pretty significant. Lets say that they enter the
> > Japanese-friendly URL, which gets immediately converted and displayed
> using
> > the % encoding, and then they go down a few levels and want to capture
> what
> > the new URL is. If the display now contains the whole huge string of
> > converted characters, the user is stuck with an unwieldy URL.
> >
> > But perhaps this is a processing issue rather than a display issue.
> >
> > Thanks again for any help you can give me in understanding how this is
> > handled.
> >
> > Suzanne Topping
> > Localization Unlimited
>
>
>
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