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Re: HTML Validation Form [Was: Nesting of HTML elements ]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rick Troth)
Thu Nov 3 21:34:00 1994
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 1994 03:31:06 +0100
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From: Rick Troth <TROTH@UA1VM.UA.EDU>
To: Multiple recipients of list <www-talk@www0.cern.ch>
>Given that HTTP is 8 bit clean, the only reason I can think of is people
>passing URLs around in mail, through something awfull like an ASCII-EBCDIC
>gateway. Is that it?
Careful, Chris. We have feelings too.
There's no reason why ASCII-EBCDIC isn't 100% reversible.
Here, try
http://ua1vm.ua.edu/~troth/ebcdic_is_okay
[excuse my use of tilde; I trust no gateway mangled it]
The code point assignments are different. That's all.
As far as I'm concerned it's just a strange mapping of ISO 8859-1.
>--
>Chris
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Rick Troth, <rmtroth@aol.com>, <troth@ua1vm.ua.edu>, Houston, Texas, USA
