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Re: URL characters
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lugnet.publish
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Mon, 26 Jul 1999 21:41:21 GMT
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In lugnet.publish, sparre@sys-323.risoe.dk (Jacob Sparre Andersen) writes:
> [...]
> Similarly if people type <slash> <tilde> <n> <o> (expecting
> "/~no"...) most systems will return "/ño".
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> I have actually seen the latter of these two misprints in a
> Danish newspaper.
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> > So what's up with that, anyway? How the heck did ~ gain such huge
> > popularity if it's not officially allowed in URLs?
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> Both the original CERN http daemon and Apache uses ~ for
> user home pages.
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> > Was it allowed once upon a time?
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> Dunno.
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> It has probably been allowed until people started thinking
> about which characters gives trouble.
> [...]
Wow. OK, that certainly makes sense. So, the hypothesis is that "~" may
have been disallowed so that commonly available software (which used "~" for
special formatting tricks) for certain languages didn't have to be altered
to parse-recognize URLs and avoid converting "~" in those cases? In other
words, it may have been a legacy thing for backward compatibility with
existing text processing tools?
--Todd
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: URL characters
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| Todd Lehman: (...) It works like I described (at least the ~n case) even in Word97/Win95(DK), so I am not sure it is correct to call it a "backward" compatibility problem[1]. People have to learn to type <tilde> <space> to get a tilde on most (...) (26 years ago, 27-Jul-99, to lugnet.publish)
| | | Re: URL characters
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| Jacob Sparre Andersen skrev i meddelandet ... (...) for (...) It has nothing to do with different software (MS or others), it's in the keyboard driver (OK, that's probably MS). On a Swedish keyboard '~' is a 'dead char', which is automatically (...) (26 years ago, 31-Jul-99, to lugnet.publish)
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| | Re: URL characters
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| Todd Lehman: (...) The primary reason for disallowing ~ is the special treatment it gets in several European languages. If people type <slash> <tilde> <s> <p> (expecting "/~sp") some systems will just return "sp". Similarly if people type <slash> (...) (26 years ago, 26-Jul-99, to lugnet.publish)
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