Hi Dave,
> whereas < and > are pretty common for this and no one will bat an eye
> at those in non-UTF-8 contexts.
‘The angle-bracket "<" and ">" and double-quote (") characters are
excluded because they are often used as the delimiters around URI in
text documents and protocol fields.’
— https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2396, §2.4.3
‘The recommendation is that the angle brackets (less than and greater
than signs) of the ASCII set be used for this purpose.
‘...
‘Example
‘Yes, Jim, I found it under <ftp://info.cern.ch/pub/www/doc> but
you can probably pick it up from <ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc>.’
— https://www.w3.org/Addressing/URL/5.1_Wrappers.html
--
Cheers, Ralph.
‘Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.’
— Winston Churchill
