Subject: Re: [httpwg/http-extensions] Expand on motivation for the encoding (#213)

From: HTTP issue updates <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2016 08:19:47 -0700

We already say:

"By default, header field values in HTTP messages ([RFC7230]) cannot directly carry characters outside the US-ASCII coded character set ([RFC0020])."

...which hints at the fact that RFC 7230 puts non-ASCII octets into the "obs-text" production. I'll try to expand a bit on this.

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