Re: Typeable characters

"Martin J. Duerst" <mduerst@ifi.unizh.ch> Sun, 22 December 1996 06:07 UTC

Date: Sat, 21 Dec 1996 22:59:11 +0100 (MET)
From: "Martin J. Duerst" <mduerst@ifi.unizh.ch>
To: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
Cc: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>, uri@bunyip.com
Subject: Re: Typeable characters
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On Sat, 21 Dec 1996, Masataka Ohta wrote:

> > # "@", "$", "#"(for fragments).
> > 
> > Are you saying that people who cannot type an Internet email address
> > (which usually requires "@") should also be considered to be able to
> > type a URL?
> 
> Even with ISO, ISO 646 IRV is now ASCII.

Yes, it is, since around 1991. But still Japan has its Yen symbol
instead of the backslash, and its overbar instead of the tilde.
And so you shouldn't assume other countries are more advanced.

> Moreover, we are not part of ISO and don't have to invent trigraphs.

I agree we don't. I don't mind if "@", "$", "#", and even "~" are
officially part of URLs. But it's important we don't give the impression
that they can be easily typed everywhere and will pass though all
gateways if they actually don't.

Regards,	Martin.

Typeable characters Martin J. Duerst
Re: Typeable characters Larry Masinter
Re: Typeable characters Martin J. Duerst
Re: Typeable characters Masataka Ohta
Re: Typeable characters Martin J. Duerst
Re: Typeable characters Masataka Ohta