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

["Martin J. Dürst" <[e-mail]>]

On 2010/09/27 5:40, Anne van Kesteren wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Sep 2010 22:19:40 +0200, Bjoern Hoehrmann <[e-mail]>
> wrote:
>> * Anne van Kesteren wrote:

>>> Most other such formats ignore a leading U+FEFF.
>>
>> I can't think of any format that's always UTF-8 encoded yet allows for
>> it, but anyway, treating it as part of a name is simpler than ignoring
>> it, I think people are more likely to implement that correctly than if
>> I were to require recognizing it.
>
> text/event-stream and text/cache-manifest.

Ignoring a leading U+FEFF makes sense for formats that are in most ways 
close to files. That's the case for most MIME types. But this one is 
very clearly different; it's more like a micro-level format for a single 
line of data composed of many fields, than a file format. In that case, 
ignoring a leading U+FEFF seems to make very little sense. Also, while a 
large number of servers these days can work with UTF-8 easily, I 
wouldn't know of any server infrastructure that ingnored an U+FEFF in 
this case.

Regards,    Martin.


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