Re: Q.) Encode URL inside HTML Anchor Tag.

[Mike Brown <mike at skew dot org>]

On Nov 17, I wrote:
> (The URL-encoding algorithm is, roughly, replace certain reserved
> characters with their UTF-8 sequences, expressed as '%xx' for
> each octet, where xx is the hexadecimal representation of the
> octet; with the option of using '+' instead of '%20' for spaces.

Somehow I came to this conclusion after researching some related issues,
but I guess it's not quite accurate. The algorithm doesn't specify what
character set to use for non-ASCII characters; it just says it depends on
the scheme. The http scheme is described in the RFC for HTTP/1.1, and it
does not address the issue at all.

There are situations where HTML user agents are recommended to use UTF-8
in URIs, but this is not anything one can count on for URIs in general. I
posted more about this on xml-dev today, with references. See

  http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200011/msg00549.html

   - Mike
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