# Re: html, http, urls and internationalisation

Glenn Adams (glenn@spyglass.com)
Thu, 1 Feb 96 09:12:06 -0500

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    From: Glenn Adams <glenn@spyglass.com>

    Date: Thu,  1 Feb 96 09:12:06 -0500

    To: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp>

    Subject: Re: html, http, urls and internationalisation

From: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp>
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 96 10:30:01 JST

> ... for example big-5 is not covered by ISO 10646 ...
>
> Why do you say this?

In Big-5, two characters are duplicatedly encoded to have two code
points. So, mapping from CNS 11643 or ISO 10646 can not be one to
one.

Keld said "covered" not "maps one-to-one". In any case, I agree that
there exists a need to use other character sets with the %XX encoding.
On the other hand, it would be reasonable to indicate a default inter-
pretation, and, for this purpose, I would suggest the UTF-8 encoding of
ISO/IEC 10646 (= Unicode 1.1).

Regards,
Glenn

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