- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:54:46 +0100
- To: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- CC: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Mark Nottingham wrote: > > Based upon discussion, a proposal for closing i74: > > * p1, section 2.2 - > >> The TEXT rule is only used for descriptive field contents and values >> that are not intended to be interpreted by the message parser. Words >> of *TEXT MAY contain characters from character sets other than ISO- >> 8859-1 [ISO-8859-1] only when encoded according to the rules of >> [RFC2047]. > > - remove the requirement that only RFC2047 encoding be used; instead, > recommend that context-specific encoding rules be used (giving > examples), and failing that, the \u'nnnnnn' form from BCP137. > - add new issues for dealing with specific circumstances (e.g., From, > Content-Disposition, Warning) as necessary. I do agree with the goal of allowing new headers to use a saner format; and also recommending a specific one (such as RFC5137, Section 5.1). Should the ABNF reflect this? Such as: - for TEXT, state that it allows ISO8859, plus RFC2047-encoded stuff - introduce something like ITEXT, using RFC5137, Section 5.1 format ..and then make sure that only those headers use TEXT where this is used in practice... BR, Julian
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