RE: Please clarify * is legal in HTTP1/1 Accept-Charset Header

In the HTTP WEBDAV group we are within half an inch of defining headers
using UTF 8 and language tags. Internationalization is a major issue for
us and we can ignore it no longer.
		Yaron

>-----Original Message-----
>From:	Martin J. Duerst [SMTP:mduerst@ifi.unizh.ch]
>Sent:	Monday, January 13, 1997 8:43 AM
>To:	Koen Holtman
>Cc:	ftang@netscape.com; cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@http-wg.uucp;
>www-international@w3.org; Alan_Barrett/DUB/Lotus.LOTUSINT@crd.lotus.com;
>bobj@netscape.com; Chris.Lilley@sophia.inria.fr;
>Ed_Batutis/CAM/Lotus@crd.lotus.comi18ngrp
>Subject:	Re: Please clarify * is legal in HTTP1/1 Accept-Charset Header
>
>On Thu, 9 Jan 1997, Koen Holtman wrote:
>
>> Accept-Charset has no wildcard in 1.1 because of an oversight, not because
>> the http-wg had a long discussion in which it was decided to omit it.  I
>> think a strong case can be made for adding the wildcard in the next
>>revision
>> of the HTTP/1.1 specification (which will be in 4 months I think).  Someone
>> would have to write a small internet draft to make this happen.
>
>Writing an internet draft to document the problems surrounding
>internationalization in the current draft has been suggested as
>a conclusion to other discussions. At present, I count 6 issues,
>of course not all of them with equal degree of consensus.
>
>I would be willing to write them together as an internet-draft;
>anybody willing to help??? Anybody afraid of me writing this
>draft, because I have my own oppinion on certain issues?
>I would prefer to limit the discussion to http-wg, because this
>is most directly concerned, and I don't want to get the same
>mail more than two times. A preliminary title would be
>draft-ietf-http-i18n-issues-00.txt. Does anybody have any
>better idea?
>
>Regards,	Martin.
>

Received on Tuesday, 14 January 1997 02:43:03 UTC