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Re: URL characters
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lugnet.publish
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Sun, 5 Mar 2000 18:35:35 GMT
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Todd:
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> 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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