# Re: Globalizing URIs

Fisher Mark (FisherM@is3.indy.tce.com)
Tue, 08 Aug 95 11:21:00 PDT

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    From: Fisher Mark <FisherM@is3.indy.tce.com>

    To: Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>

    Subject: Re: Globalizing URIs

    Date: Tue, 08 Aug 95 11:21:00 PDT

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Keith Moore points out a critical error in
<199508081434.KAA04004@thud.cs.utk.edu> (per my half-baked Unicode
suggestion):
>Ack! Out of the question. URIs need to be in a universal character
>set -- meaning a character set that's available on every keyboard.
>The only reasonable option is to use a subset of ASCII. Period.

Oops! I meant to say, "how about standardizing on Unicode as the encoding
(encoded?) character set". As in <URL:http://manga.jp/%BF%FA.html> having
the "%BF%FA" interpreted as encoded Unicode (vs. encoded shift-JIS, etc.).
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Mark Fisher Thomson Consumer Electronics
fisherm@indy.tce.com Indianapolis, IN

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