Re: Default Charsets

On 6/13/06, Mark Nottingham <mnot@yahoo-inc.com> wrote:
>
> So... is this an errata?
>
> Are there cases where having this as a default is actually helpful?
>
> > However, many, if not all, of the text/* media types define their
> > own defaults; text/plain (RFC2046), for example, defaults to ASCII,
> > as does text/xml (RFC3023).
> >

FWIW, Mozilla defaults text/xml to utf-8 (doesn't everyone?), but does
actually use ISO-8859-1/CP-1252 as a default if all else fails,
including sniffing. See

<http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/content/html/document/src/nsHTMLDocument.cpp#831>

for the gory details. Other media types try similar things:

(this link is slow)
<http://landfill.mozilla.org/mxr-test/seamonkey/search?string=AssignLiteral%28%22ISO-8859-1%22>

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Robert Sayre