https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9530
--- Comment #31 from Philippe Verdy <verd...@wanadoo.fr> 2010-12-07 16:34:09 UTC --- I really *didnot* say that Punycode wpould solve the duplicates. In fact you're resaying exactly what I said (even speaking that this was a separate issue). I have never intended that Punycode would solve duplicates. It was just possible to use it as an alternative to the incorrect syntax of existing id's that contain dots. You can argue anything you want but anything generated like: id=".C2.BF" is completely invalid. There MUST not ne any dot in id's generated from non-ASCII characters. and the current encoding exposes each UTF-8 byte in its hex form, which is really inefficient (in terms of length) and really unreadable (not more that Punycode), when many more letters outside ASCII are perfectly valid in HTML an XML id's. Why can't we have ids like: id="Résumé" (which is perfectly valid) and we still have to see things like: id="R.C2.E9sum.C2.E9" (which is completely invalid) ??? That's ALL what I was commenting (and I did not introduce myself the separate problem of duplicates). You misunderstood or simply did not read my own statements. Punycode was ONLY a suggestion for the first problem. It is of course based on a framework where we absolutely don't need to keep the additional "xn--" prefix which is definitely not part of Punycode itself, but part of its use in IDNA (which has a much more restricted subset of valid characters, than the set of valid characters in XML id's). But Punycode still offers a good encoding framework for building valid XML id's for the case were some characters are restricted (we'll still need to encode in some way the presence of dots in NON-encoded section headings). -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
