Re: [Uri-review] about: scheme; Simplified Encoding Considerations

[Julian Reschke <[e-mail]>]

Joseph A Holsten wrote:
> URI people:
> 
> I intend to replace the current about: scheme Encoding Considerations[1]:
> 
>    Because many characters are not permitted with this syntax, the
>    "segment" and "query" elements may contain characters from the
>    Unicode Character Set [UCS] as suggested by URI [RFC3986], by first
>    encoding those characters as octets to the UTF-8 character encoding
>    [RFC3629]; then only those octets that do not correspond to
>    characters in the unreserved set should be percent-encoded.
> 
>    By using UTF-8 encoding, there are no known compatibility issues with
>    mapping Internationlized Resource Identifiers to about URIs according
>    to [RFC3987].  Since about URIs do not use domain names, "ireg-name"
>    conversion is unnecessary.
> 
> with the following (adapted from hixie's ws: scheme[2]):
> 
>    Characters in the "segment" or "query" parts that are excluded by the
>    syntax defined above must be converted from Unicode to ASCII by first
>    encoding the characters as UTF-8 and then replacing the corresponding
>    bytes using their percent-encoded form as defined in the URI and IRI
>    specifications. [RFC3986] [RFC3987]
> 
> Any objections or issues?
> ...

I think the current text is clearer with respect to whether IDNA 
conversion is needed or not.

BR, Julian