More study and I lucked on a spec http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-reschke-basicauth-enc-00.html Seems a known and open problem (how long has this been in the wild ? How did it ever work ?) So follow-on question ... Does anyone know if this spec or anything like it has been adopted ? Or do we just all assume the world is "USASCII" as usual ? From: David Lee [mailto:dlee@calldei.com] I know this is not an "xml" question but maybe someone on this list knows or can point me to the right direction ? Is there a defined character set for the strings used in user/password in HTTP Basic Authentication ? http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/1.0/spec.html#BasicAA It says its "Base64" encoded but that only makes sense on a byte array not a string. So what encoding/charset is the string assumed to be ? Example: if someone uses a password like "飯田西"
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