Re: UTF-8 in URIs

In message <aba0c024677d0d0bf4dc944ef64da6b7.squirrel@arekh.dyndns.org>, "Nicol
as Mailhot" writes:

>I'd rather have clear interop rules and simple to understand breakage at
>http2 adoption time rather than diffuse heisenbugs and sites that work by
>sheer chance as long as you chain components with the same unwritten
>assumptions. See the python 2 unicode debacle and how much fuzzy encoding
>rules cost them.

Seconded.

This is one clear way HTTP/2 can improve over HTTP/1.1:  Eliminate
unnecessary and pointless fuzziness.

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Received on Friday, 17 January 2014 09:03:15 UTC