- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 17:39:21 +1000
- To: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
- Cc: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On 27/04/2012, at 5:32 PM, James M Snell wrote: > > It may be because it's after midnight and I really should be getting > some sleep, but i don't quite follow what you're saying about > requiring knowledge of the headers to translate between the different > encodings. Right now, it's possible to encode non-Latin-1 characters into headers using an encoding, like that described in RFC5987. However, that isn't a blanket encoding; i.e. the header definition has to specify its use. Generic software can't just look at headers and say "look, that's internationalised"; it has to know the header's specific syntax to lift it up to UTF-8 (for example). >> That's out of scope for this work, I think. > > Very well. Perhaps it would be worthwhile for me to write something up > on this independently then. Please do, I think that would be interesting. Cheers, -- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/
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