>>>>> On Wed, 7 Sep 2016 16:50:15 +0100, Mark Thomas <markt_at_apache.org> said:
EB> If the URI RFC is not itself clear, then I think we should not say
EB> anything about using UTF-8 as the default encoding in the request.
MT> I strongly disagree.
MT> The web is moving (some might argue has moved) towards using UTF-8. We
MT> should be moving with "the general consensus around the internet" and
MT> using UTF-8 by default.
MT> Tomcat has been using UTF-8 by default for URIs since early 2014 and I
MT> don't recall a single issue being reported because of it.
I'm willing to consider changing my position based on your disagreement,
Mark, but I would love to hear from others on this one. Given the
intentional design of UTF-8 with respect to compatibility with
ISO-8859-1 and US-ASCII, we will probably be ok but I do want to hear
from others.
Ed
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