Re: "Difficult Characters" draft
"Martin J. Duerst" <mduerst@ifi.unizh.ch> Sun, 04 May 1997 15:59 UTC
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Date: Sun, 04 May 1997 17:36:18 +0200
From: "Martin J. Duerst" <mduerst@ifi.unizh.ch>
To: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
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Subject: Re: "Difficult Characters" draft
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On Fri, 2 May 1997, Larry Masinter wrote: > > Other issues: > > The bidi issues for RLT languages in conjunction with > > normal punctuation used in and around identifiers. (Will > > the identifiers present themselves 'correctly' without > > these characters in all cases?) > > When you type Hebrew and enter: > > "http://host.il/WERBEH/DROW" > > (HEBREW WORD), might some typing software add direction markers > and some other typing software leave it out? When the above sequence is typed (in logical/phonetical order as HEBREW/WORD) in a *plain text context* and with a display engine using the Unicode BIDI algorithm, it will not appear as desired, i.e. as WERBEH/DROW. The same applies to a lot of other kinds of formal syntax, in particular also to HTML/SGML syntax. Sadly enough, there doesn't seem anything much that can be done to change this. The aim of the upcomming draft for BIDI for URLs (or identifiers) is to define their display (and input) behaviour in places where these identifiers are handled as such, i.e. the input field at the top of a browser page, the file list display in finder-like places, and URL input/display in structured HTML editors,... Regards, Martin.
- Using UTF-8 for non-ASCII Characters in URLs Larry Masinter
- Re: Using UTF-8 for non-ASCII Characters in URLs Dan Connolly
- Re: Using UTF-8 for non-ASCII Characters in URLs Michael Kung <MKUNG.US.ORACLE.COM>
- Re: Using UTF-8 for non-ASCII Characters in URLs Larry Masinter
- Re: Using UTF-8 for non-ASCII Characters in URLs Dan Oscarsson
- Re: Using UTF-8 for non-ASCII Characters in URLs Larry Masinter
- Re: Using UTF-8 for non-ASCII Characters in URLs Dan Oscarsson
- Re: Using UTF-8 for non-ASCII Characters in URLs Gary Adams - Sun Microsystems Labs BOS
- Re: Using UTF-8 for non-ASCII Characters in URLs Gary Adams - Sun Microsystems Labs BOS
- Re: Using UTF-8 for non-ASCII Characters in URLs Francois Yergeau
- Re: Using UTF-8 for non-ASCII Characters in URLs Larry Masinter
- Re: Using UTF-8 for non-ASCII Characters in URLs Michael Kung <MKUNG.US.ORACLE.COM>
- Re: Using UTF-8 for non-ASCII Characters in URLs Larry Masinter
- Re: Using UTF-8 for non-ASCII Characters in URLs Martin J. Duerst
- Re: Using UTF-8 for non-ASCII Characters in URLs Martin J. Duerst
- Re: Using UTF-8 for non-ASCII Characters in URLs Larry Masinter
- Re: Using UTF-8 for non-ASCII Characters in URLs Dan Oscarsson
- Re: "Difficult Characters" draft Martin J. Duerst
- Re: Using UTF-8 for non-ASCII Characters in URLs Martin J. Duerst
- Re: Using UTF-8 for non-ASCII Characters in URLs Edward Cherlin
- Re: Using UTF-8 for non-ASCII Characters in URLs Chris Newman
- Re: "Difficult Characters" draft Larry Masinter
- Re: "Difficult Characters" draft Alain LaBont/e'/
- Re: "Difficult Characters" draft Martin J. Duerst
- Re: Using UTF-8 for non-ASCII Characters in URLs Martin J. Duerst
- Re: "Difficult Characters" draft Leslie Daigle
- Re: "Difficult Characters" draft Alain LaBont/e'/
- Re: "Difficult Characters" draft Martin J. Duerst
- Re: "Difficult Characters" draft Patrik Faltstrom
- Re: Using UTF-8 for non-ASCII Characters in URLs Martin J. Duerst
- Re: Using UTF-8 for non-ASCII Characters in URLs Alain LaBont/e'/