Internationalization of URLs

Author: Martin J. Dürst (mduerst@ifi.unizh.ch)

The consistent internationalization (i18n) of URLs is an important issue for a true WORLDWide Web. This page mainly contains references to my recent contributions to the URL and URI mailing lists, as well as some contributions by others.

• The rationale for my proposal to recommend UTF-8 with %HH-encoding
• The updated proposal for changes to the process draft
• The first proposal for changes to the syntax draft
• The first proposal for changes to the process draft
• Some comments on URLs and Bidirectionality
• Why using ISO 2022 is not a good idea (apart from lacking support)
• Why CJK unification is better than separate encoding for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean
• Discussion of Larry Masenter's proposal for the process draft
• A nice summary by Edward Cherlin
• Roy Fielding's comments to my first proposal for the syntax draft and my answer to it
• Explanation of the problems with transcoding
• What to do about the http://www. part
• A nice summary by Chris Newman
• The URL i18n overview by Francois Yergeau
• An earlier view from myself on the subject (outdated!)