Re: Important note on default charset in "text/csv" (RFC 4180)

As a side note on this, while this is true, the ABNF grammar has not been
updated in RFC 4180.

Yakov

On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 9:16 PM, Yakov Shafranovich <yakov-ietf@shaftek.org>
wrote:

> I noticed the github issue Jeni posted earlier (#44) as well as issue #8
> in the model document (
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-tabular-data-model-20140327/). The issue is
> that we want the default character set to be UTF-8 while RFC4180 when I
> wrote it defines it as plain ASCII.
>
> While going through the documents, it turns out that the default character
> set for "text/csv" is actually now UTF-8. This change took effect when
> RFC7111 which defines CSV fragments was approved. The CSV mime type now
> consists of RFC 4180, RFC 7111 with a combined registration appearing here:
>
> https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/text/csv
>
> This means that while RFC 4180 does mandate ASCII, for standards purposes
> on the IETF side, this has been changed and the default now is in fact
> UTF-8.
>
> Thanks,
> Yakov
>