- From: Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>
- Date: Sat, 05 Oct 2002 00:58:45 +0200
- To: Francois Yergeau <FYergeau@alis.com>
- Cc: ietf-charsets@iana.org
Francois Yergeau <FYergeau@alis.com> writes: >> > > UTF-8 never needs a 'byte-order' signature. >> > >> >This is unfortunately not true, except in the limited realm >> >of properly internationalized protocols >> >> As for example IETF protocols. > > Errr, some IETF protocols. I have no way to tell an FTP server what is the > charset of a file I'm uploading, nor does the server have any way of telling > me the charset of a file I'm downloading. And even if it had a way (like in > HTTP), the server most probably wouldn't know and would either not tell or > lie. Those protocols should be extended to send this information, since it is not possible to handle text encoded in multiple encodings otherwise. I don't think it is for UTF-8 to solve these problems, which BOM partially tries to do. (HTTP supports this, the current FTP extensions addresses it partially, lying implementations cannot be standardized away though.)
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