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

Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net> Tue, 10 February 2015 21:54 UTC

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* 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. 
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