Re: [Lynx-dev] non-ascii characters in URLs

[David Woolley]

Klaus-Peter Wegge wrote:
> Lynx Team,
>
> to demonstrate the problem and to avoid long discussion on
> charactersets I attach a small sample html-file.
> The w3c validator says this file is valid html.

The validator validates HTML, not URLs.  A lot of the major browsers 
make a best effort to handle broken URLs, e.g. they convert spaces, 
rather than ignoring them (although the latter would be more in line 
with the reason for their not being part of URLs).

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