Re: Call for Adoption: draft-reschke-rfc54987bis

On 2015-03-31 22:56, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
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> In message <20150331182521.GF7183@1wt.eu>, Willy Tarreau writes:
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>>> Third, are there *any* valid reasons to even allow other charsets
>>> than ISO-8859-1 or UTF-8 from 2015 forward ?
>>
>> Idem. And if we don't need to do more than that, then probably we
>> just need a boolean to say "this is not ISO-8859-1, hence this is
>> UTF-8" and make the encoding implicit by the sole presence of the
>> encoding tag (eg: the "*" or "=", I don't remember right now).
>
> In that case I could live with it being per field, because the
> signal could be a single character and we could probably
> dispense with the % encoding too.

Friends, this is not a new format. It is implemented in all major user 
agents, so it really doesn't make sense to invent a new shorter syntax 
approximately 15 years after this has been defined first.

Best regards, Julian

Received on Wednesday, 1 April 2015 08:10:11 UTC