On 22 Oct 2010, at 2:18 AM, Graham Morrison wrote:
To Whom it May Concern:
Why are URLs only limited to alphanumeric characters? I wish we
could use punctuation marks in URLS. For instance it would be cool
to go to boom!com...I think the exclamation mark makes the whole URL
more exciting. Also, you could have ASCII URLS like (>'-')>.com or
[:|].com. Do you have a family? i'm sure your children would love to
visit sites like that. I know I would. Punctuation marks would
richen the online experience. If your organization's top minds
applied their energy towards this task, it could be rapidly
implemented..
Please direct this email to whoever approved the use of Chinese
characters and other symbols in URLs...I think this is an issue of
grave importance and I look forward to your response.
There exists a standard for internationalized URIs (called IRIs):
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3987.txt
_ Ian
Thank you,
Graham Morrison
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