- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:42:19 +0200
- To: Frank Ellermann <hmdmhdfmhdjmzdtjmzdtzktdkztdjz@gmail.com>
- CC: ietf-http-wg@w3.org
Frank Ellermann wrote: > ... >> 3b) Support > * <http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc2231.html#rfc.section.4>, >> but only use UTF-8 encoding in producers. > > -1 Tiny mazes, all different... :-( The us-ascii example is > perfect, and if 2616bis sticks to its iso-8859-1 "default" > this relic and its more popular windows-1252 incarnation are > also plausible. I can see a "strongly RECOMMENDED", but no > MUST utf-8 here, and "default" iso-8859-1 there, and a big > mess everywhere. > ... Well, we need one encoding that can represent all Unicode code points, and UTF-8 comes to mind for that. Support for RFC2231 in UAs would be totally pointless if we couldn't require recipients to understand it. So why produce anything else? BR, Julian
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