Comments about section 4.16.3.1 MIME Tags

• From: Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
• Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 16:35:27 +0900
• To: public-i18n-ws@w3.org
• Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.J.20040618163034.058adec0@localhost>

I have had a short look at section 4.16.3.1 MIME Tags.
It is extremely unprecise in its use of terminology.

Examples:

charset attribute -> charset parameter
MIME tag -> [probably] MIME header
internal charset tag -> internal character encoding information
(please check others)

Also, the sentence: "If the attachment contains an internal charset tag,
the MIME charset parameter should be omitted to avoid an inadvertent mismatch."
is dangerous, because for a MIME type of text/xml or text/....+xml,
there is a strict default of US-ASCII.


Regards,    Martin.

Received on Friday, 18 June 2004 08:24:26 UTC