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Re: URL characters
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Date: 
Sun, 5 Mar 2000 18:35:35 GMT
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Todd:

[...]

Naturally, the plain tilde character, being part of ASCII
for decades, shouldn't be ruled out as a valid character
just because it is an extra keystroke on some keyboards.

Assuming we still are talking URL's, it is discouraged/invalid
because there is a significant risk that people get it wrong
if they type it in (which they shouldn't do). You are right
that it shouldn't be necessary to rule it out completely.

Oh, WOW -- that is AWESOME!  It would take a bit of
getting used to, but, man, I'll bet you could type real
text SO much faster that way!  Very nice!

Not nice at all!

I'm typing text, also in French, much faster with a US
layout (+some private adjustments) than with the French
layout. - And that is no matter whether the actual keyboard
is French or US.

Play well,

Jacob (who wants full Unicode domain names and URL's)

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(...) Oh, not at all -- that's exactly what I meant. U.S. cluelessness about non-U.S. conventions is even worse than U.S. chauvinism. At least chauvinists know that other conventions exist. :-) (...) Yes, but the reason ISO-8859-1 (for example) has (...) (25 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.publish)

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