[thelist] international URIs and encoding

Kid Stevens kstevens89 at comcast.net
Mon Aug 19 17:52:01 CDT 2002


Japanese would kill that URL.  They decode some characters different.

Monster dot com send me email links like that with my login in them
plus the job listing info and mail won't pop them open.  Too Long.

At 2:29 PM -0700 8/19/02, Tom Dell'Aringa wrote:
>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">
>
>(how's that for nasty.) They have a link to a java class for encoding
>this stuff, I'm wondering if that is the best way to go about it? How
>necessary is it if say, you wanted to do business in a foreign
>language country like Japan or whatever.
>
>Tom
>
>
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