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Re: Character encodings in headers [i74][was: Straw-man charter for http-bis]

"Clive D.W. Feather" <clive@demon.net> Mon, 20 August 2007 07:54 UTC

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From: "Clive D.W. Feather" <clive@demon.net>
To: John C Klensin <john-ietf@jck.com>
Subject: Re: Character encodings in headers [i74][was: Straw-man charter for http-bis]
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John C Klensin said:
> If we are going to consider changes in this area, let's make
> them improvements.  Locking in 8859-1 is not an improvement: it
> would, IMO, be better to deprecate its use

+1

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