[spec] IRIs, IDNs, and all that international jazz

[Petite Abeille]

> On Dec 25, 2020, at 22:10, Stephane Bortzmeyer <stephane at sources.org> wrote:
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> On Fri, Dec 25, 2020 at 10:07:37PM +0100,
> Petite Abeille <petite.abeille at gmail.com> wrote 
> a message of 8 lines which said:
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>>> I don't think that percent-encoding has to be done per path segment.
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>> Reserved Characters gen-delims "/"
> 
> So?

You are not meant to encode the path separator if you would like to preserve the path semantic. If you do, you turn the entire path into one segment. Which is certainly not the desired effect most of the time.