Select Code to Download

3.4 Character Sets

   HTTP uses the same definition of the term "character set" as that
...
   content-type field if they support that charset, rather than the
   recipient's preference, when initially displaying a document. See
   section 3.7.1.

   For original character sequences that contain non-ASCII characters,
   however, the situation is more difficult. Internet protocols that
   transmit octet sequences intended to represent character sequences
...
   It is expected that a systematic treatment of character encoding
   within URI will be developed as a future modification of this
   specification.