Re: Straw-man charter for http-bis

Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> Mon, 20 August 2007 03:40 UTC

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From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
Subject: Re: Straw-man charter for http-bis
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 13:39:55 +1000
To: Martin Duerst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
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http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/1.1/rfc2616bis/issues/#i74

On 10/06/2007, at 6:05 PM, Martin Duerst wrote:

> - RFC 2616 prescribes that headers containing non-ASCII have to use
>   either iso-8859-1 or RFC 2047. This is unnecessarily complex and
>   not necessarily followed. At the least, new extensions should be
>   allowed to specify that UTF-8 is used.


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