Changeset 1075 for draft-ietf-httpbis-content-disp/latest/draft-ietf-httpbis-content-disp.xml

Timestamp:

04/11/10 08:16:27 (12 years ago)

Author:

julian.reschke@…

Message:

rephrase description of percent-encoding (see #263)

File:

• draft-ietf-httpbis-content-disp/latest/draft-ietf-httpbis-content-disp.xml (modified) (4 diffs)

draft-ietf-httpbis-content-disp/latest/draft-ietf-httpbis-content-disp.xml

@@ -544 +544 @@
     <seriesInfo name="RFC" value="2231"/>
   </reference>
-
+<!--
   <reference anchor="RFC3629">
     <front>
@@ -556 +556 @@
     <seriesInfo name="STD" value="63"/>
     <seriesInfo name="RFC" value="3629"/>
-  </reference>
+  </reference>-->
 
   <reference anchor="RFC3864">
@@ -693 +693 @@
 <t>
   Some user agents accept percent encoded (<xref target="RFC3986" x:fmt="," x:sec="2.1"/>)
-  sequences of characters encoded using the UTF-8 (<xref target="RFC3629"/>) character encoding.
-</t>
-<t>
-  In practice, this is hard to use because those user agents
-  that do not support it will display the escaped character sequence to the user.
-</t>
-<t>
-  Furthermore, the first user agent to implement this did choose the encoding
-  based on local settings; thus making it very hard to use in multi-lingual
-  environments.
+  sequences of characters. The character encoding being used for decoding
+  depends on various factors, including the encoding of the referring page,
+  the user agent's locale, it's configuration, and also the actual value of
+  the parameter.
+</t>
+<t>
+  In practice, this is hard to use because those user agents that do not
+  support it will display the escaped character sequence to the user. For those
+  user agents that do implement this it is difficult to predict what character
+  encoding they actually expect.
 </t>
 </section>
@@ -886 +886 @@
     </t>
     <t>
+      <eref target="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/263"/>:
+      "text about historical percent-decoding unclear"
+    </t>
+    <t>
       <eref target="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/264"/>:
       "add explanation of language tagging"