RE: [xri] Keyboards and Characters

["Drummond Reed" <drummond.reed@onename.com>]

John, thanks, this is very helpful. I too realize the limitations and
Western-centricness of the reserved characters in the original URI
specifications, but that's a much larger problem than we can tackle. I
think the best we can do is acknowledge it and talk about the whole IRI
effort in the I18N section.
 
I'll assume then, unless I hear otherwise from someone on the list, that
we'll stick with $ as the XRI Specification authority character.
 
=Drummond 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Veizades, John [mailto:jveizade@visa.com]
Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 10:51 AM
To: xri@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [xri] Keyboards and Characters
 
As a follow up to yesterdays TC call, I did some quick research on
international keyboards and how the reserved set of XRI characters is
entered.  Most of the Western European and Asian keyboards allow the
entry of all of the reserved URI/XRI characters.  Sometimes it can be a
bit awkward (@ = AltGr-q on the German keyboard) but nothing that would
be out of the ordinary.  For some of the non-Latin alphabet keyboards
(Cyrillic, Hindi and others) the entry of almost any of the reserved
characters is hard at best (alt followed by the hex character value).
 
I think that what is proposed in the specification would not add any
additional burden to individual from throughout the world, than what is
already in place for the entry or URLs and email addresses.
 
For those that are interested in all the keyboard layouts supported by
Windows: 
 <http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/keyboards.aspx>
http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/keyboards.aspx
John Veizades... 
Visa International