Re: IRIs, IDNAbis, and HTTP

Martin Duerst wrote:
> At 02:11 08/03/14, Julian Reschke wrote:
>> Brian Smith wrote:
>>> Thank you. I read the BNF for TEXT many times but I've always overlooked
>>> the accompanying text. The RFC 2047 mechanism is truly horrible but I
>> Isn't it :-)
>>
>> BTW: "Words of *TEXT MAY contain characters from character sets other than ISO-8859-1 [22] only when encoded according to the rules of RFC 2047 [14]." really is incorrect and should be rephrased.
> 
> What exactly is the problem? Do you have any new text?

As far as I understand, words of *TEXT never contain characters from 
character sets other then ISO8859-1, the same way URIs never contain 
non-ASCII characters.

Wouldn't it be more precise to say:

"Characters from character sets other than ISO-8859-1 must be encoded 
according to the rules of RFC 2047 for use inside TEXT constructs."

BR, Julian

Received on Friday, 14 March 2008 09:52:30 UTC