# Character set in URL

Milan Sova (sova@feld.cvut.cz)
Mon, 28 Mar 1994 19:03:53 -2587316 (MET DST)

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    Message-Id: <9403281703.AA13917@katz.feld.cvut.cz>

    Subject: Character set in URL

    To: uri@bunyip.com

    Date: Mon, 28 Mar 1994 19:03:53 -2587316 (MET DST)

    From: "Milan Sova" <sova@feld.cvut.cz>

In "Uniform Resource Locators (URL)" - draft-ietf-uri-url-03 -
Tim wrote:

> .... Where the local naming
> scheme uses ASCII characters which are not allowed in the URL,
> these may be represented in the URL by a percent sign "%" followed
> by two hexadecimal digits (0-9, A-F) giving the ISO Latin 1 code
> for that character. ...

This excludes from using in URL any character not included in
ISO 8895-1 charset. That means that eg. I won't be able to show my boss
THE URL pointing to his record in our directory service (his name contains
three ISO Latin 2 characters).

I think the charset information should be included in the URL
syntax ( hard-wiring any charset into a protocol must bring troubles
sooner or later - eg. SMTP ).

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    					Milan Sova
    					sova@feld.cvut.cz

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