Re: Unicode escape sequence | Re: draft-ietf-httpbis-header-structure-00, unicode range

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In message <95057a05-6714-9154-8cf8-7cd302c86715@gmx.de>, Julian Reschke writes
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>>> IETF has published BCP 137, which should be followed, unless there is a
>>> very good reason not to:
>>>  https://www.rfc-editor.org/bcp/bcp137.txt
>>>
>>> See section 5.1.
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>> So many RFCs, so little time...
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>> 	EmbeddedUnicodeChar =  %x5C.75.27 4*6HEXDIG %x27
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>> That works for me, but HPACK is not a big fan of it:
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>> 	19 + 6 + 11 + [4:6] * [5:6] + 11 = [67:83]
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>> Is that a show-stopper for anybody in Asia ?
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>Why are we concerned with HPACK? Wouldn't we convert to raw UTF-8 before 
>HPACKing?

Well, UTF-8 would also go through HPACK, but by eye-ball it seems
that it would be more efficient.

But it would kill the "HPACK doesn't molest tunneled H1 headers" idea ?

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Received on Wednesday, 14 December 2016 10:51:53 UTC