From kde-devel  Thu Oct 14 11:26:05 1999
From: Boris Povazay <boris () jouh ! at>
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 11:26:05 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: Q: The dimension of UNICODE awareness
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Stefan Taferner wrote:

> > URIs are currently either ASCII or interpreted as UTF-8. The following
> > paragraph (http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-charmod#URIs) holds the information
> > concerning the current status:
> [... url encoding specifications ...]
> 
> But nevertheless one could show the URLs in Unicode in the user interface
> and only encode it when it is really necessary. Read: when interacting with
> protocols that do not support it.
> 
> There is IMO no need to convert, e.g.,  file://~stefan: the local file system
> undestands these characters. And why bother users with some strange
> URL encodings.

Agreed! KDE should handle Unicode internally as proposed. There should
be no problems to contact the "outside" via an URI - it should just be
resolved with UTF-8 encoding...

> Just my 0.01 Euro  ... I have no Euro sign yet :-]

So take a cent instead! P-)
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