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Re: http charset labelling

Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp> Fri, 16 February 1996 10:49 UTC

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From: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp>
Message-Id: <199602160930.SAA17385@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp>
Subject: Re: http charset labelling
To: Keld J|rn Simonsen <keld@dkuug.dk>
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 96 18:30:24 JST
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Keld;

I wrote:

> > So, code mapping proposal which is proven not to work on paper is,
> > IMHO, almost useless. Maybe, URLs in e-mail are rare exceptions.

Again, code mapping proposal which is proven not to work on paper is
almost useless.

> To me it means that the URL is hidden and can be anything so it
> does not matter then if it is encoded in a special charset or not.

On browsers, yes, it is hidden. So, it is meaningless to use
a special charset.

						Masataka Ohta

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