Re: Just the issues: encoding public ids as URNs

[John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>]

Norman Walsh wrote:


> I've suggested that we use '+', ':', and ';', so we must have an
> escaping mechanism for them when they occur literally. I propose
> to add '$' to this list and require the following:
> 
>  $$ to represent a literal $
>  $+ to represent a literal +
>  $: to represent a literal :
>  $; to represent a literal ;

For the record, all of these characters may be usefully %-escaped
by both 2141 and 2396 rules.  That is, both 2141 and 2396 think
that ":" and "%3A" are two different strings, unlike
"_" and "%5F", which are 2141-distinct but 2396-identical.
That's why I said they were "available".

Does that affect your position?

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