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

On 14 December 2016 at 21:51, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
> Well, UTF-8 would also go through HPACK, but by eye-ball it seems
> that it would be more efficient.

If you have lots of ASCII still, you can probably Huffman encode,
though if you have lots of non-ASCII, you need to watch out: a three
octet UTF-8 encoded codepoint turns into (worst case) 82 bits.  Best
case is 58 bits (both of which are invalid, so maybe not).

I can't remember, is there actually a good reason why we can't just
start shoving UTF-8 in header fields?  I mean, h2 is probably OK with
this.

Received on Wednesday, 14 December 2016 11:38:17 UTC