We're working on an OAuth 2.0 AS, with extensions defined for session 
mgmt.  We're trying to adopt uniformly the error reporting mechanism in 
6749.

I'm now realizing that the error_description response in specified to be 
USASCII.  I was assuming that the error message could be UTF-8 encoded, 
such that I could return error messages in the client's locale.  E.G. 
consider the client credentials grant.  The store on the AS holding the 
registration is down, so I'd like to return a 500 with an error message 
from the store, from a catalog mapped to the client's language.

I've wondered about adding an additional response parameter, something 
like error_description_locale, but thought that there might be better 
practices out there.  I'm also wondering about the USASCII constraint on 
error_description.  I'm a long-time reader of this list, but I'm not 
recalling the background on this.





Todd Lainhart
Rational software
IBM Corporation
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