Re: Unicode in a URL

From: David Starner (dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org)
Date: Thu Apr 26 2001 - 14:14:41 EDT


On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 09:16:42AM -0700, Paul Deuter wrote:
> I am wondering if there isn't a need for the Unicode Spec to also
> dictate a way of encoding Unicode in an ASCII stream. Perhaps
> the %uXXXX is already that and I am just ignorant. Another
> alternative would be to use the U+XXXX format that already has
> been in wide use in the literature.

You can use UTF-7 (defined in an RFC), but if you need to transmit
Unicode by a ASCII-only carrier, BASE64 or Mime encoding is generally
preferred.

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