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

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Tue, 10 February 2015 22:06 UTC

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On 2015-02-10 22:55, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:
> 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

An encoding that depends on the locale of the UA. I really don't know 
how to say it differently :-)

Best regards, Julian

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