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Re: [http-auth] Last Call: <draft-ietf-httpauth-basicauth-update-05.txt> (The 'Basic' HTTP Authentication Scheme) to Proposed Standard

Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@MIT.EDU> Tue, 10 February 2015 21:55 UTC

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Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 16:55:49 -0500
From: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@MIT.EDU>
To: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
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Subject: Re: [http-auth] Last Call: <draft-ietf-httpauth-basicauth-update-05.txt> (The 'Basic' HTTP Authentication Scheme) to Proposed Standard
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On Tue, 10 Feb 2015, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:

> * Benjamin Kaduk wrote:
> >I forget if this was already mentioned, but "local-specific encoding" in
> >section 2 should probably use "locale" instead of "local".
>
> The text in question is "In practice, most implementations chose either
> a local-specific encoding such as ISO-8859-1 ([ISO-8859-1]), or UTF-8
> ([RFC3629])." Now ISO-8859-1 is not really specific to any "locale" and
> I would rather not suggest that implementations typically derive the
> encoding from `LC_CTYPE` or some such setting.

Can you tell me then what exactly a "local-specific encoding" is?
Because the phrase is currently meaningless to me.

-Ben

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