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Re: Local browsing

From Russell Hafter News <see.sig@walkingingermany.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.sys.acorn.misc
Subject Re: Local browsing
Date 2012-09-19 21:06 +0100
Organization Russell Hafter Holidays
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In article <na.4090d252d1.a806e0tennant@orpheusmail.co.uk>,
   Tennant Stuart <tennant@orpheus.co.uk> wrote:

> For example, common words in foreign languages contain
> letters which the people in those countries regard as
> normal. Although these are "correctly" converted into
> Unicode, that still makes the link a different filename.

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.

eg: the Hotel König Albert Höhe has the URL
www.hotel-koenig-albert-hoehe.de

the Auberge du Pêcheur has the URL www.auberge-du-pecheur.be

and the Hôtel Cathédrale in Tournai has the URL
www.hotelcathedrale.be

Check the links at http://www.praguewelcome.cz/ where many
(most) of the clickable links have all sorts of diacritics,
but the actual link URLs all use plain unaccented
characters.

The web was designed by English speakers, and we do not use
such characters ourselves, and so in the usual rather
arrogant way of the English language, it has imposed its
rules on others.

Had the web been originally designed by Eastern Europeans,
things might have been different (or they might not).

-- 
Russell
http://www.russell-hafter-holidays.co.uk
Russell Hafter Holidays         E-mail to enquiries at our domain
Need a hotel? <http://www.hrs.com/?client=en__blue&customerId=416873103>

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