Re: PROPOSAL: i74: Encoding for non-ASCII headers

Julian -- sorry, I mean to say that we need to consider excluding C1.

Jamie -- if we later decided to allow UTF-8, we'd of course have to  
figure out how it fit into the overall picture. This sub-issue is just  
about whether we should allow C1 in iso-8859-1, as the spec is  
currently written.

Cheers,


On 04/04/2008, at 7:26 AM, Julian Reschke wrote:

> Jamie Lokier wrote:
>> I agree with everything Julian said, except:
>> Julian Reschke wrote:
>>> TEXT already allows C1 controls (and always did) (<http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/draft-ietf-httpbis-p1-messaging-latest.html#rule.TEXT 
>>> >):
>>>
>>>  TEXT           = %x20-7E | %x80-FF | LWS
>>>                 ; any OCTET except CTLs, but including LWS
>>>
>>> That being said, I'd like it to exclude C1 controls.
>> If C1 controls _in the form of octets %x80-9F_ are excluded, and HTTP
>> agents begin to reject TEXT containing those octets, it will be  
>> harder
>> to transition to UTF-8 later.  (In case you'd forgotton, UTF-8 uses
>> those octet values for normal characters).
>
> No I didn't. Good point.
>
>> ...
>
> BR, Julian


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