Subject: Re: Question about the character set in HTTP-URLs

From: "James P. Salsman" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 15:03:22 -0700 (PDT)

>... Does anybody know the default codepage in URIs of HTTP?

US-ASCII.  Don't count on high-bit-set bytes resembling Latin-1 or 
even working at all on some platforms.  However, there is a proposal 
to incorporate non-ASCII UTF-8 as (multi-)bytes as %xx :

http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-masinter-url-i18n-05.txt

Cheers,
James