A reminder of the original design goal of Markdown - my personal thoughts

[Michel Fortin]

John Gruber wrote:


> A. Pagaltzis <pagaltzis at gmx.de> wrote on 9/6/05 at 6:03 AM:

>

>> That particular question is not the issue. Per RFC, Unicode

>> characters go into URIs as regular URI-escaped UTF-8. John’s

>> stars would be %e2%98%85 f.ex.

>

> It's not a question of being able to generate them,  

> programatically, in

> such a way that they're valid. It's a question of how an author would

> know what to link to.


Exactly.

A. Pagaltzis uri-escaped an id with unicode in it so that it would be  
suitable for a URI, but such an id with unicode in it is already  
invalid by itself. From [the spec][]:

 > ID and NAME tokens must begin with a letter ([A-Za-z]) and may be  
followed
 > by any number of letters, digits ([0-9]), hyphens ("-"),  
underscores ("_"),
 > colons (":"), and periods (".").

  [the spec]: http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/types.html#type-name


Michel Fortin
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