On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 5:23 PM, Larry Masinter <[email protected]> wrote: > If 'hostname' is a non-ASCII string (IDN), should a processor trying to > convert the IRI to a URI use punicode or %xx-hex-encoding for the authority > segment?
Per the URL standard, this depends on the scheme. > WHATWG > http://url.spec.whatwg.org/ (Anne, Leif) Just me. > has a fixed set of relative schemes: ftp, file, gopher (a mistake?), > http, https, ws, wss > Uses IDNA 2003 not 2008 > I'm not sure, but I think it re Did you omit something here? I talked with Mark a couple of weeks ago and will update the URL standard to refer to UTS #46 and use it's transitional mode for IDNA ToASCII and ToUnicode processing. I'm waiting for UTS #46 to be refreshed this summer, but I could be persuaded to reference the draft copy for a while. -- http://annevankesteren.nl/
