Re: [XHR] Some comments on "charset" in the Content-Type header

Boris Zbarsky wrote:
> Julian Reschke wrote:
>> Maybe I'm missing something, but why not leave it alone if the MIME 
>> type isn't "text/*" (the only ones where charset is really relevant)?
> 
> An excellent example right there of why!  For example, it's relevant for 
> some application types: application/xml, application/xhtml+xml, 
> application/x-javascript (yes, I know, not officially registered, still 
> in use).

Why would you ever *want* to set charset on application/xml or 
application/*+xml? (except for the reason the related RFC recommends 
it)? What is it good for? Are there really cases where people need to 
override the results of XML's charset sniffing?

> ...

BR, Julian