Abstract
When posting to a Media Collection, the text of the Title header should be encoded according to the rules of RFC2047.
Status
Proposed
Rationale
In the existing description, nothing is said about the format of the Title header. RFC2616 requires that descriptive field contents be encoded according to the rules of RFC 2047, but that may not be immediately obvious to someone reading the APP spec.
Proposal
In section 8.1.2 replace:
Title = "Title" ":" [text] The syntax of this header MUST conform to the augmented BNF grammar in section 2.1 of the HTTP/1.1 specification [RFC2616].
with:
Title = "Title" ":" [TEXT] The syntax of this header MUST conform to the augmented BNF grammar in section 2.1 of the HTTP/1.1 specification [RFC2616]. The TEXT rule is described in section 2.2 of the same document. Words of *TEXT MAY contain characters from character sets other than [ISO-8859-1] only when encoded according to the rules of [RFC2047].
In section 16.1 add:
[RFC2047] Moore, K., "MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part Three: Message Header Extensions for Non-ASCII Text", RFC 2047, November 1996. [ISO-8859-1] International Standard -- Information Processing -- 8-bit Single-Byte Coded Graphic Character Sets -- Part 1: Latin alphabet No. 1, ISO-8859-1:1987.