Re: [idn] IDNs in IE and Google

[Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>]

At 00:12 04/01/28 +0900, Soobok Lee wrote:


> Moreover, Most asian HTML homepages are published in local charset encoding
> like euc-kr, big5 and gb2312 etc. UTF-8-encoded HTML pages are extremely 
> *RARE*
> in ASIA.

There is no need to switch to UTF-8 encoded pages to use IRIs.


> Need for backward compatibility to already deployed IRI-concept and
> Unicode<->Local charset conversion layer may lay another  complexity to 
> IRI effort.

Yes. That's why I have developed the fileiri module for Apache.
See http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/apache-modules/mod_fileiri/,
http://www.w3.org/2003/06/mod_fileiri/Overview.html
(the examples don't work if the test server isn't up),
and http://www.w3.org/2003/Talks/0904-IUC-IRI/.

The idea of this module is easy: You tell it in what encoding
the file names on your server are, per directory if you want
(probably even finer, although I haven't tested that), and
the server makes sure that the files can be retrieved both
from older browsers (which just use the encoding in the page)
as well as from newer browsers (which convert to UTF-8 before
sending out the URI).

Any comments, beta-testers, and porters are welcome!

Regards,   Martin.