[Zope3-dev] Character Table Revisions

[Phillip J. Eby]

Okay gang, thanks for the help so far.  It looks like we need to make some
changes to the character summary.

Unless there are any objections, ")" needs to go to the "Definitely Ruled
Out" section, due to truncation in mail clients and "netscape -remote".  I
would also move "," and "(", to at least the "Probably Ruled Out" section,
since they break "netscape -remote".

So far, all the other "Under Consideration" characters ("@", "!", "-", "+",
"=", and "_") seem to be holding up pretty well under the testing barrage,
as long as they are not used as the last character of a URL.

However, I haven't seen any results yet for Opera or Outlook/Outlook Express.

A question: should we consider moving any of the previously "Probably Ruled
Out" characters to "Under Consideration"?  For example, "~" is in
widespread usage, despite being deprecated by RFC 1738, and RFC 2396
acknowledges this by changing its status to "unreserved".  "*" and "$" are
considered usable by both RFC's - are the conflicts with metacharacters and
variable interpolation worth it?  And so on.