- From: Martin J. Dürst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
- Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 15:52:14 +0900
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- CC: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, httpbis Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On 2010/12/14 6:18, Julian Reschke wrote: > 2) It's a bit unfortunate that we had an open question about whether we > should throw out ISO-8859-1 as REQUIRED encoding in RFC 5987; we asked > around multiple times, and as we didn't get any clear feedback we > didn't. So, if you're going to make changes to IE anyway, I'd like to > encourage you to also implement ISO-8859-1 (it could be done by an > additional preprocessing step if keeping the legacy code in use is > really important to you). What about letting IE do things without ISO-8859-1, and in due time removing that from (a succesor of) RFC 5987? ISO-8859-1 for HTTP may have been a good idea in 1990, but it has long ago ceased to be anything else than a heavy burden. Regards, Martin. -- #-# Martin J. Dürst, Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University #-# http://www.sw.it.aoyama.ac.jp mailto:duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp
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