- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2008 10:00:35 +0200
- To: "William A. Rowe, Jr." <wrowe@rowe-clan.net>
- CC: Frank Ellermann <hmdmhdfmhdjmzdtjmzdtzktdkztdjz@gmail.com>, ietf-http-wg@w3.org
William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: > I'm becoming very confused. RFC 2616 is very explicit; > > The TEXT rule is only used for descriptive field contents and values > that are not intended to be interpreted by the message parser. Words > of *TEXT MAY contain characters from character sets other than ISO- > 8859-1 [22] only when encoded according to the rules of RFC 2047 > [14]. > > TEXT = <any OCTET except CTLs, > but including LWS> > > So, we have a clear definition of where and when and how non-8859-1 > characters are permitted, in spite of your's and Julian's claims in his > recent draft. I really wish people would be more accurate in their > assertions. I recommend that you look at the mailing list discussions for recent discussions about which headers actually *do* use TEXT. See <http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/111> and <http://greenbytes.de/tech/httpbis/issue-111.xhtml>. BR, Julian
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