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

On Sat, 20 Sep 2008 02:58:22 +0200, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote:
> [...]

I realize this discussion was well over a year ago. I imagine Gecko has  
meanwhile dealt with the compatibility issues so we can probably keep it  
in the specification if you can confirm that. (And add it to  
XMLHttpRequest Level 2 where it is not yet included.)

Could you please also comment on the text in

   http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/XMLHttpRequest/#the-send-method

to see if what it says now regarding the Content-Type header and charset  
parameter is correct?


Something I would like to change is to remove the dependency on  
document.inputEncoding and simply always encode documents as UTF-8 too.  
Can we do that? This would be better for off-the-shelf XML parsers on the  
server which might only be able to deal with UTF-8 and UTF-16. Especially  
in the cross-origin scenario.


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