IETF Logo Mail Archive

Re: http charset labelling

Gavin Nicol <gtn@ebt.com> Thu, 08 February 1996 07:56 UTC

Received: from ietf.nri.reston.va.us by IETF.CNRI.Reston.VA.US id aa07212; 8 Feb 96 2:56 EST
Received: from CNRI.Reston.VA.US by IETF.CNRI.Reston.VA.US id aa07208; 8 Feb 96 2:56 EST
Received: from services.Bunyip.COM by CNRI.Reston.VA.US id aa02472; 8 Feb 96 2:56 EST
Received: (from daemon@localhost) by services.bunyip.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) id CAA11568 for uri-out; Thu, 8 Feb 1996 02:21:54 -0500
Received: from mocha.bunyip.com (mocha.Bunyip.Com [192.197.208.1]) by services.bunyip.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with SMTP id CAA11562 for <uri@services.bunyip.com>; Thu, 8 Feb 1996 02:21:52 -0500
Received: from ebt-inc.ebt.com by mocha.bunyip.com with SMTP (5.65a/IDA-1.4.2b/CC-Guru-2b) id AA16928 (mail destined for uri@services.bunyip.com); Thu, 8 Feb 96 02:21:49 -0500
Received: (from gtn@localhost) by ebt-inc.ebt.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) id CAA06117; Thu, 8 Feb 1996 02:20:04 -0500
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 1996 02:20:04 -0500
Sender: ietf-archive-request@IETF.CNRI.Reston.VA.US
From: Gavin Nicol <gtn@ebt.com>
Message-Id: <199602080720.CAA06117@ebt-inc.ebt.com>
To: mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp
Cc: masinter@parc.xerox.com, keld@dkuug.dk, uri@bunyip.com
In-Reply-To: <199602070320.MAA18632@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp> (message from Masataka Ohta on Wed, 7 Feb 96 12:20:06 JST)
Subject: Re: http charset labelling
X-Orig-Sender: owner-uri@bunyip.com
Precedence: bulk

>        8th bit of URL MUST be 0. Should a malformed URL is found,
>        its 8th bit MAY be masked to be 0. Otherwise the URL MUST
>        be rejected.
> 
>Then, non-ASCII URLs will disappear.

If anyone speaks to you in anything other than English, reject the
sentence. Quite an appealing idea.

>You can see that no people are using mail address with kanji, which
>is why we can communicate internationally.

I think that using legacy systems as justification for the design of
new systems is a very poor way to design software.

v2.23.0 | Report a Bug | By Email