Re: UTF-8 in URIs

• From: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
• Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 12:46:26 -0800
• To: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
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On 18 January 2014 09:34, Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com> wrote:
> Without expressing an opinion on exactly what to say about URIs, I
> definitely think everything should be UTF-8 wherever possible, and note with
> pleasure that the Internet is moving steadily in that direction.

That's definitely the trend, and a good one.

If size is an issue, then that is a task for compression.  Not that
I'm recommending we customize hpack to account for this now - that
would be premature - but the option remains open.

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