[thelist] international URIs and encoding

.jeff jeff at members.evolt.org
Mon Aug 19 17:07:01 CDT 2002


tom,

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> From: Tom Dell'Aringa
>
> Does anyone out there have any experience in encoding
> URIs for international use? According to the W3C:
>
> http://www.w3.org/International/O-URL-code.html
>
> There are only some 60 characters allowed in a URI.
> We have lots of crazy ones like:
>
> <a href="/html/en/default/common/breakOutWithHeaders
> .jsp?winName=WebProcess.srv?objectId=540000&actionId=
> 540319&propertyId=10489&projectId=1&GeoSpaceID=
> 2305843009213693953&SpecID=229849&DisplayParents=
> false&DisplayChildren=false&Discipline=ALL&
> PublishedFlag=false&OrderBy=specname&ClassificationID=
> -1&Source=P" target="_blank">
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i don't see any characters in the href attribute value that would require encoding.  fwiw, the w3c isn't talking about 60 characters being the maximum number of characters in the url, only that there were 60 unique characters in the typical character set that can be used in the url unencoded.

.jeff

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