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PaceClarifyTitleHeader


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.

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