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Expand on motivation for the encoding #213

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martinthomson opened this issue Jul 18, 2016 · 4 comments
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Expand on motivation for the encoding #213

martinthomson opened this issue Jul 18, 2016 · 4 comments

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Explain why you probably shouldn't just use UTF-8.

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reschke commented Sep 2, 2016

...for new header fields?

@mnot mnot added the editorial label Sep 28, 2016
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mnot commented Sep 28, 2016

Marking this as editorial, as I think it just means we need to point to 7230's restriction on header field values.

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reschke commented Oct 5, 2016

We already say:

"By default, header field values in HTTP messages ([RFC7230]) cannot directly carry characters outside the US-ASCII coded character set ([RFC0020])."

...which hints at the fact that RFC 7230 puts non-ASCII octets into the "obs-text" production. I'll try to expand a bit on this.

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reschke commented Nov 14, 2016

I believe this can be closed with the changes in 5ec7eed

@reschke reschke closed this as completed Nov 17, 2016
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