19 Jun
2002
19 Jun
'02
5:55 p.m.
Florent Guillaume wrote:
Toby Dickenson <tdickenson@geminidataloggers.com> wrote:
On Tuesday 18 Jun 2002 8:44 pm, Dieter Maurer wrote:
The reason why it is still there is that a change should work for all languages and not only western ones. This poses the question how the byte string representing the id your should be URL quoted.
There is an RFC, I forget which one, which specifies utf8.
I'm not sure about that, last time I digged I found that it was explicitely said in the RFCs that no encoding was specified and that it was up to the application to decide what to use.
Florent
I came across a nice site regarding UTF-8 and unicode, perhaps this helps: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html cheers, oliver