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Subject: [URN] What is %encoding (was: New syntax draft)
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On Thu, 31 Oct 1996 05:15:43 -0800 (PST), Gregory J. Woodhouse wrote:

>By %encoding I assume you mean hex encoding of non-ASCII or non-safe bytes.
>Is there an official name for this encoding scheme? I've seen it called URL
>encoding, but that hardly seems satisfactory.

%encoding refers to %HH encoding of octets.  I do make this point in section 1.2.
As to the name, I've had it referred to as "%encoding" in several pieces of mail to me,
so that is what I'm using.  If somebody has a better name that is acceptable to
folks, I'll be happy to change it.

Ryan