Danger!
There are TWO encodings required here.
I think the original author's problem was with DNS names (hence the
reference to BIND). You can't have Unicode characters in a domain name
using percent encoding. This is the piece where standardization is going
on now (cf. LACE, RACE, UTF-5, iDNS, etc.)
What Edward is referring to is the standard URI encoding already used for
the *rest* of a URI (e.g. after the first '/' character in the URI). This
code is available in a number of places. A good one (embedded in a clear
discussion of URIs and I18n) is located at:
http://www.w3.org/International/O-URL-code.html
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On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Suzanne Topping wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Edward Cherlin" <edward.cherlin.sy.67@aya.yale.edu>
>
> >
> > I was involved in the process that led to Martin's RFC. You can find
> > the archive of that part of our discussion in
> >
> > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/uri/1997Apr/
> >
> > and neighboring directories.
> >
> > >The BIND development team is also looking at the problem. Adding
> > >support for Unicode URI's is not an easy task, but it is something that
> > >needs to be done and is long overdue.
> >
> > We provided source code, which you can find in the archive, for the
> > rather simple process of encoding and decoding Unicode URIs.
>
> Edward,
>
> Can you point us to where this code might be found? I poked around the
> archive for 10 minutes or so, and wasn't able to come up with it.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Suzanne Topping
> BizWonk Inc.
>
>
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