26257 2014-07-03 04:20:11 +0000 poor example of byte sequence or poor terminology or both 2015-02-17 12:37:42 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WHATWG Fetch unspecified PC All RESOLVED WORKSFORME P2 normal Unsorted 1 glenn annevk mike sideshowbarker+fetchspec oldest_to_newest 108668 0 glenn 2014-07-03 04:20:11 +0000 `true` is not a byte sequence, it is a sequence of six printed symbols; or, excluding the backquotes, a sequence of four printed symbols 't' 'r' 'u' 'e' on the other hand, the sequence of four hexadecimal 8-bit byte value representations <0x74 0x72 0x75 0x65> is a byte sequence you are confusing bytes and characters or bytes and printed symbols 108670 1 annevk 2014-07-03 05:34:08 +0000 It's a convenient representation of bytes as otherwise spelling out HTTP stuff would be a pain and make things unreadable. 108674 2 glenn 2014-07-03 05:46:56 +0000 (In reply to Anne from comment #1) > It's a convenient representation of bytes as otherwise spelling out HTTP > stuff would be a pain and make things unreadable. Let me study your encoding document and see if I can suggest an alternative. 114244 3 annevk 2014-10-30 16:33:12 +0000 I'm using this a lot now. Changing would be quite a pain. However, did you come up with something that is clearer?