- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 17:35:14 +0100
- To: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- CC: httpbis Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On 07.11.2010 18:11, Julian Reschke wrote: > On 07.11.2010 17:54, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: >> * Julian Reschke wrote: >>> Maybe say "(which defaults to ISO-8859-1 for the quoted-string form)"? >> >> I don't really care, but if you do want to change it, I'd suggest, >> surprise, to get rid of ISO-8859-1 and instead just say something like >> "Some user agents inspect the value and interpret it as UTF-8 encoded >> string when ...". > > Currently it says > > "Some user agents inspect the value (which defaults to ISO-8859-1) and > switch to UTF-8 when it seems to be more likely to be the correct > interpretation." > > if we take out that bit it would become > > "Some user agents inspect the value and switch to UTF-8 when it seems to > be more likely to be the correct interpretation." > > which then would raise the question what the correct interpretation > actually is. And it is ISO-8859-1. The text changed in <http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/changeset/1080> to: "C.3 Encoding Sniffing Some user agents inspect the value (which defaults to ISO-8859-1 for the quoted-string form) and switch to UTF-8 when it seems to be more likely to be the correct interpretation. As with the approaches above, this is not interoperable and furthermore risks misinterpreting the actual value." ...which I believe is accurate. Björn, are you OK with closing the bug? Best regards, Julian
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