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Subject: Re: [URN] I18N does not belong in URNs
From: Larry Masinter <[e-mail]>
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# But with ASCII as a "restricted" character set, we will definitely
# get cruftiness, and I see no reason to allow cruftiness for
# English, but to deny it for most other languages.

You say you see 'no reason' yet a simple reason seems compelling: The
upper-case ASCII character set is available to computer users in any
language, even when the native language does not use ASCII. For the
same reason, many otherwise useful ASCII characters were excluded from
URLs because they do not appear in some 'national' character sets:
{}|~ etc.

Regards,

Larry