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Re: Question about the character set in HTTP-URLs

2000-08-01 15:50:02
... Does anybody know the default codepage in URIs of HTTP?

US-ASCII.  Don't count on high-bit-set bytes resembling Latin-1 or 
even working at all on some platforms.  However, there is a proposal 
to incorporate non-ASCII UTF-8 as (multi-)bytes as %xx :

http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-masinter-url-i18n-05.txt

Cheers,
James



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