[Web-SIG] Request for Comments on upcoming WSGI Changes

[P.J. Eby]

At 04:30 PM 9/21/2009 +0100, René Dudfield wrote:
>On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 4:19 PM, P.J. Eby <pje at telecommunity.com> wrote:
> > At 12:25 AM 9/21/2009 -0400, Chris McDonough wrote:
> >>
> >> Anyway, for us slower (and maybe wrongly fearful) folks, could someone
> >> summarize the benefits of having a WSGI specification that 
> requires Unicode.
> >> Bonus points for an explanation that does not boil down to "it will be
> >> compatible with Python 3".
> >
> > +1.  I'd really rather not have the spec dictated by the need to 
> work around
> > problems in the stdlib or language definition.  Better to fix them ASAP.
> >
>
>hi,
>
>here is a summary:
>     Apart from python3 compatibility(which should be good enough
>reason), utf-8 is what's used in http a lot these days.  Most things
>layered on top of wsgi are using utf-8 (django etc), and lots of web
>clients are using utf-8 (firefox etc).

Since WSGI is based on HTTP, please cite RFCs, not applications.  Thanks.