URI people:
I intend to replace the current about: scheme Encoding Considerations[1]:
Because many characters are not permitted with this syntax, the
"segment" and "query" elements may contain characters from the
Unicode Character Set [UCS] as suggested by URI [RFC3986], by first
encoding those characters as octets to the UTF-8 character encoding
[RFC3629]; then only those octets that do not correspond to
characters in the unreserved set should be percent-encoded.
By using UTF-8 encoding, there are no known compatibility issues with
mapping Internationlized Resource Identifiers to about URIs according
to [RFC3987]. Since about URIs do not use domain names, "ireg-name"
conversion is unnecessary.
with the following (adapted from hixie's ws: scheme[2]):
Characters in the "segment" or "query" parts that are excluded by the
syntax defined above must be converted from Unicode to ASCII by first
encoding the characters as UTF-8 and then replacing the corresponding
bytes using their percent-encoded form as defined in the URI and IRI
specifications. [RFC3986] [RFC3987]
Any objections or issues?
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