[tei-council] Internationalised domains

[Stuart A. Yeates]

Punycode is already required (and happens automatically with modern
tools and formats) for URIs. View the source of the (UTF-8) web page
of my example website to see what I mean.

The issue is when people put URIs and in free text fields where the
tools are unaware that these are URIs and expect them to 'just work'.

cheers
stuart



On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 1:26 AM, Kevin Hawkins
<kevin.s.hawkins at ultraslavonic.info> wrote:
> I'm not sure about prescribing use of RFC 3492.  This seems to me like
> prescribing use of US-ASCII with character entity references instead of
> UTF-8 within XML documents to ensure that we can use our documents with
> a full range of software toolS -- something that fewer and fewer people
> support doing.
>
> On 9/20/2011 4:49 AM, Stuart A. Yeates wrote:
>> Currently domain names in TEI can occur in typed fields (such as
>> data.pointer) or in many other fields where type checking is more
>> relaxed (or non-existent). I would like to propose the following note
>> to appear somewhere in the standard (I'm thinking the data.pointer
>> page, but I'm open to suggestions). The URL in the example is perhaps
>> the best-known punycode URL (see
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masr_%28domain_name%29 ), but if Arabic
>> script causes problems in the publishing process I can probably find a
>> more Latin-esque one.
>>
>> cheers
>> stuart
>>
>> ----
>>
>> Internationalised domains containing non-ASCII characters should
>> always be escaped using RFC 3492 syntax ("punycode") Thus
>> http://موقع.وزارة-الاتصالات.مصر/ is written
>> http://xn--4gbrim.xn----rmckbbajlc6dj7bxne2c.xn--wgbh1c/ Such escaping
>> permits internationalised domains to be used with a full range of
>> software tools.
>>
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