On Wednesday, February 1, 2017 at 8:52:57 AM UTC-8, Mark D. Roth wrote:
>
> What character encoding do they use for that field, UTF-8?  How can we 
>>> tell what character encoding is in use?  I think we'd need some way to 
>>> figure this out in order to support it.
>>>
>>
>> it is raw bytes, so no encoding (it is a serialized internal protobuf)
>> It does not require splitting (in fact any modification would be harmful)
>> Maybe make the delimiter optional? (and when it is set, the field must be 
>> a string).
>>
>
> Actually, I think there's a more fundamental problem here.  HTTP2 headers 
> are limited to ASCII characters (see 
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7540#section-10.3).  Given that, the only 
> way we could support this would be to encode it somehow in the header value.
>

Isn't this a problem for strings as well, as currently defined in the gRFC? 
How are strings containing non-ASCII or illegal characters handled?

>

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