Re: charset=us-ascii mandatory?

On 5/7/07, Jukka K. Korpela <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> wrote:
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> On Mon, 7 May 2007, olivier Thereaux wrote:
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> >> Isn't "us-ascii" the default value for "charset"?
> >
> > utf-8 is.
>
> Only for XML-based documents.

True except for a nitpicky point -- for documents delivered as
text/xml, the default is us-ascii.
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3023#section-3.1

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