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[editorial] Rephrase encoding note to make the implications clearer. #804

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Rephrase encoding note to make the implications clearer.
tabatkins Nov 6, 2023
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Fix linking error
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Expand Up @@ -2038,8 +2038,9 @@ and <a>code points</a> in the range U+00A0 to U+10FFFD, inclusive, excluding <a>
<!-- IRI also excludes the ranges U+E000 to U+F8FF, U+FFF0 to U+FFFD, and U+E0000 to U+E09FF, all
inclusive. We don't to align with HTML. -->

<p class=note>Code points greater than U+007F DELETE will be converted to
<a lt="percent-encoded byte">percent-encoded bytes</a> by the <a>URL parser</a>.
<p class=note>For historical reasons, rather than storing codepoints and [=byte/percent-encoding=]
to ASCII for serialization, URLs instead store their value as ASCII internally, eagerly converting
code points greater than U+007F DELETE to [=percent-encoded bytes=] during [=URL parser|parsing=].

<p class=note>In HTML, when the document encoding is a legacy encoding, code points in the
<a>URL-query string</a> that are higher than U+007F DELETE will be converted to
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