On Wed, 2003-12-31 at 04:11, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 11:44:28PM -0500, Alexander Winston wrote: > > After speaking with Robert Jordens and several of my colleagues > > about it, I feel more comfortable encouraging the behavior that is > > referenced in RFC 2396, Appendix E. The suggestion is the enclosure of > > URIs---URLs included, of course---in the "angle brackets" < and >. The > > Unicode Consortium, or perhaps more specifically, The Unicode > > Standard, refers to these glyphs as LESS-THAN SIGN (U+003C) and > > GREATER-THAN SIGN (U+003E), respectively. > > This is a practice that makes good sense to me, but I am curious > > as to whether anyone else has any views on making this the suggested > > Debian method for referring to URIs. > > (For context, see bug #225585.) > > It definitely makes sense to me to recommend this for use in package > descriptions, at least when the URI would be ambiguous due to being > immediately followed by punctuation or similar. > > I'd prefer to avoid the "URL:" prefix that RFC 2396 mentions but notes > "is not common in practice"; some people configure their terminal > emulator to consider ":" as part of a word so that they can simply > double-click to select a whole URI (at least if it's in a vaguely normal > format), and the "URL:" prefix breaks that. Yeah, I sort of one-upped that and used to prefix links with "URI:" but I no longer do after reading this.
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