Re: Local browsing

Date	2012-09-21 07:17 +0100
From	Matthew Phillips <spam2011m@yahoo.co.uk>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.acorn.misc
Subject	Re: Local browsing
Message-ID	<28f68bd252.Matthew@sinenomine.freeserve.co.uk> (permalink)
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In message <aMq*YoSfu@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk>
 on 20 Sep 2012 Theo Markettos  wrote:

> Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid> wrote:
> > As someone who uses foreign language websites on a daily
> > basis, I have *never* seen a URL (or an e-mail address)
> > containing characters above 126.
> 
> Ahem:
> http://?????????.??/
> http://??????.??/
> or indeed my own
> http://????????.gr/
> 
> (you will need a UTF-8 newsreader and browser to see these)

Hard to tell how NetSurf will cope with these: I wrapped up the last one as a
link in a little file and set

<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> 

in the <head> of the page.  NetSurf did not seem very impressed.  But I may
have got things wrong.  Do you have a page with a link to that URL which we
could test?

> This is because .de, .be, .cz are ASCII-only.  Other domains have different
> rules.  See 'punycode' for how they are used by the DNS intrastructure. 
> For example the above links can also be represented as:
> 
> http://xn--d1abbgf6aiiy.xn--p1ai/
> http://xn--xhq73tdxbz3u524arpc.xn--fiqs8s/
> http://xn--mxaiogsjrg.gr/

The last one worked fine in NetSurf.  I did not test the others.

All this is rather far from the original poster's problem, which related to
browsing files from a RISC OS filesystem.  In that case there is no domain
name or DNS to worry about and it's just the elements of the path, which
would normally be encoded with %.  NetSurf usually does that fine, including
for form content.  But there seems to be a hiccup in how it treats
top-bit-set characters in filenames.  It looks as though it has not been told
what character set to expect, and of course with file browsing you do not get
metadata in the HTTP response or the <head> of the page to give you a clue.

Has anyone reported it to the developers?

-- 
Matthew Phillips
Durham

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