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Re: draft-ietf-httpbis-header-structure-00, unicode range

"Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Sun, 25 December 2016 14:34 UTC

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In message <6D8F0C71-BF83-438E-AF6E-4D7CA500F2B0@mnot.net>, Mark Nottingham wri
tes:

>> I see us having four options, in my order of preference:
>> 
>> 1) Forbid Unicode in headers.
>> 
>> 2) Take UTF8 out and leave all (non-ASCII) unicode to the \uxxxx
>>   escape mechanism.
>> 
>> 3) Leave UTF8 in, and make it clear that it may or may not work, so
>>   that people can use it in controlled environments.
>> 
>> 4) Leave UTF8 in, and specify how to indicate/negotiate if it can be 
>used.
>> 
>>> astral planes (and I hope the escape system there would be more sane
>>> than the one JSON has...)
>> 
>> Any suggestions ?
>
>When you say "take out / leave in" above, that's only in the context of 
>the HTTP/1 serialisation, correct?

Yes, sorry if that wasn't clear.


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