Re: [ietf-types] The application/www-form-urlencoded format

[Bjoern Hoehrmann <[e-mail]>]

* Stephen D. Williams wrote:
>  On 9/26/10 2:22 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
>> On Sat, 25 Sep 2010 23:14:39 +0200, Bjoern Hoehrmann <[e-mail]> wrote:
>>>   http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hoehrmann-urlencoded -- the draft de-
>>> scribes the application/www-form-urlencoded format, a variant of the
>>> application/x-www-form-urlencoded format first described in RFC 1866.
>
>What the character encoding errors are at the end of section 5 needs to
>be explained, at least for 2 cases.

I believe the first encodes a pair of surrogate code points, the second
a character beyond U+10FFFF, the first is an overlong sequence, then it
is a truncated sequence, and finally you have an illegal starter with
ASCII after it. They are all prohibited by the definition of UTF-8. I do
not think that kind of technical detail would be well-placed there, but
I could rephrase so it refers to UTF-8 directly instead of calling it
"character encoding errors" though that's the same thing here.
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