Moving Right Along on the Inclusions Table...

[Martin Duerst]

At 18:35 06/12/21, Michael Everson wrote:

>I can't see how this could cause any actual difficulty. The colon syntax element occurs in only one position, as in http:// or ftp:// and if someone accidentally put an ETHIOPIC WORDSPACE in there the only thing that would happen is that the browser wouldn't go anywhere.

This is not true in general. The urn: scheme uses further subfields,
such as urn:isbn:..., and some of these, at some level, could easily
be non-ASCII (the urn: spec requires %-escaped UTF-8 for this case,
and so is fully compatible with IRIs).

Regards,    Martin.




#-#-#  Martin J. Du"rst, Assoc. Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University
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