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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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  Re: URL characters
 
(...) 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 (...) (27 years ago, 3-Mar-00, to lugnet.publish)

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