Hi Nick, On 04/22/2004 02:00 PM, Nick Kew wrote: > That's rather different, isn't it? The various RFCs define default > charsets, so we have ISO-8859-1 for text/html served over HTTP, > ASCII for text/xml served over HTTP, and UTF-8 for XML in isolation. > IMO allowing users to override that is a slippery slope to > ignoring standards altogether. > We call it a customer's requirement, whether you like it or not. It is not a matter of who is more faithful to standards. carlos -- Dr Carlos A Velasco - mailto:Carlos.Velasco@fit.fraunhofer.de Fraunhofer-Institut für Angewandte Informationstechnik FIT [Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology (FIT)] http://access.fit.fraunhofer.de/ Barrierefreie Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologie für Alle Schloss Birlinghoven, D53757 Sankt Augustin (Germany) Tel: +49-2241-142609 Fax: +49-2241-1442609Received on Thursday, 22 April 2004 08:55:40 GMT
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