Re: PROPOSAL: i74: Encoding for non-ASCII headers

At 14:41 08/03/27, Mark Nottingham wrote:
>
>My reading is that HTTP is limited to iso-8859-1 *on the wire*, and  
>requires RFC2047 encoding for characters outside of that range. Do you  
>disagree with that?

That's what's written in RFC 2616. The question is whether and to
what extent that's (still) sensible in practice.

>My intent was not to disallow RFC2047, but rather to allow other  
>encodings into iso-8859-1 where appropriate.

What do you mean by "other encodings into iso-8859-1"?
Please explain.

>Disallowing RFC2047 would  
>be foolish and counter-productive; however, no one has said why  
>constraining future headers from using other encodings than RFC2047 is  
>a desirable -- or even realistic -- thing to do.
>
>I'll follow up in more detail soon...

Looking forward to it.     Regards,   Martin.



#-#-#  Martin J. Du"rst, Assoc. Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University
#-#-#  http://www.sw.it.aoyama.ac.jp       mailto:duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp     

Received on Thursday, 27 March 2008 10:19:50 UTC