Next message: Terje Bless: "Re: charset parameter"
From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
To: www-validator@w3.org
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 03:05:21 +0200
Message-ID: <b24sltgdf3mrcah23bqopr5lt5tgn1vmb7@4ax.com>
Subject: Re: charset parameter
* Terje Bless wrote:
(ok, I won't cc: you for this list any longer :-)
>>Since user agents must not assume any default encoding
>
>Wasn't this issue still up in the air last time I checked?
Maybe :)
>Since HTTP/1.1 has a default, XHTML can wave it's hands all
>it likes and it won't change a thing.
For what or whom? HTML 4 explicitly says user agents must not assume a
default value for the charset parameter, as says RFC 3023 for
application/xml (and application/xhtml+xml refers to that), so this is
rather intentionally, isn't it? Sure, dump applications that don't know
nothing about HTML may assume some default encoding (but as for
application/xml they SHOULD NOT) but we don't have to deal with that.
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