Re: gnome-vfs and character sets

[Darin Fisher <darin meer net>]

Christian Biesinger wrote:

> Alexander Larsson wrote:
>
> > > o) For authentication information (username, password), what 
> > > character set should be used for non-ascii characters? UTF-8?
> >
> >
> > At the moment everything uses UTF-8 here, although I dunno if anything
> > does anything with this behind the scenes. I think we just pass on the
> > strings. However, username/password rarely use > 127 characters i guess,
> > and for the case they do, lets bloody hope they use utf8. :)
>
>
> Hmm, at least HTTP requires special dealing with non-ascii 
> authentication information...


[re-sending now that i'm a member of the gnome-vfs-list]

See RFC 2617 (HTTP Authentication) section 2, where username and 
password for HTTP basic auth are defined to consist of characters from 
TEXT.  RFC 2616 in defining the TEXT rule has this to say:

 Words of *TEXT MAY contain characters from character sets other
 than ISO-8859-1 [22] only when encoded according to the rules
 of RFC 2047.

Not that Mozilla get's this right either

-Darin