Re: http charset labelling

Gavin Nicol <gtn@ebt.com> Mon, 05 February 1996 19:13 UTC

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Subject: Re: http charset labelling
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>> The only problem is that people *expect* to be able to use whatever
>> encoding they like in URL's.
> 
>Then, all we can do for them is to write an informational, or BCP,
>RFC on why localized URL can't be used for internationalization.
 
Or fix the problem by allowing specification of the encoding used for
the URL's.

>> If you look at some of the magazines
>> in Japan with articles on creating WWW sites. Many of them have URL's
>> that contain Kanji.
> 
>Did they? Can you name more specific references?

Yes, there is an Internet directory put out by Gakken (I forget the
name) that had such an article last month.