Re: Delta Compression and UTF-8 Header Values

On 2013/02/09 4:35, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

> Jim Gettys famously laid down some principles for X11 development,
> number 1 and 3 of which are:
>
>  1.Do not add new functionality unless an implementor cannot
>    complete a real application without it.
>
>  3.The only thing worse than generalizing from one example
>    is generalizing from no examples at all.
>
> Do we have two examples of what it is that somebody cannot do (in a
> reasonable way?) without UTF-8 header values ?

Do you have two examples of what it is that somebody cannot do (in a 
reasonable way?) in Baudot code (5-bit)?

So why would HTTP use ASCII (and ISO-8859-1) in the first place?

Regards,   Martin.

Received on Saturday, 9 February 2013 12:46:29 UTC