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Re: Unicode sucks, get over it (Re: Delta Compression and UTF-8 Header Values)

Phillip Hallam-Baker <hallam@gmail.com> Mon, 11 February 2013 15:58 UTC

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Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 10:56:57 -0500
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From: Phillip Hallam-Baker <hallam@gmail.com>
To: Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com>
Cc: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, Roberto Peon <grmocg@gmail.com>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, "\"Martin J. Dürst\"" <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>, James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>, "ietf-http-wg@w3.org" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
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Subject: Re: Unicode sucks, get over it (Re: Delta Compression and UTF-8 Header Values)
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On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 10:17 AM, Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com>wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 2:35 AM, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
> wrote:
> > On 2013-02-10 23:45, Nico Williams wrote:
> >> My proposal:
> >>
> >>   - All text values in HTTP/2.0 that are also present in HTTP/1.1
> >> should be sent as either UTF-8 or ISO8859-1, with a one-bit tag to
> >> indicate which it is.
> >> ...
> >
> > Why do we need two options?
>
> We probably don't.  The idea was that if you have a client and server
> speaking HTTP/1.1 and using ISO8559-1 (including non-ASCII
> codepoints), *and* HTTP/2.0 proxies were involved that wanted to
> rewrite the HTTP/1.1 as 2.0, well, they could do it and avoid
> re-encoding those ISO8859-1 strings.  Probably not worth it; better go
> with UTF-8 alone, period.
>

+1

I can't see a good reason why a HTTP2 proxy would not speak HTTP/1.1 for a
long time to come. If it is rewriting requests as HTTP2 then it probably
has a reason for doing so that would make UTF8 desirable as well.


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