- From: Martin J. Duerst <duerst@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 17:33:42 +0900
- To: Jacob Palme <jpalme@dsv.su.se>
- Cc: IETF Applications Area Discussion List <discuss@apps.ietf.org>, SeniorOnline technical mailing list <sol-tech@ambra.omega.it>
At 18:07 99/04/04 +0200, Jacob Palme wrote: > Recommendation: I recommend that we start with the Charset choice, > but only using one charset, ISO Latin 1. This can in the future be > extended to either full Charset or Charset with a choice between > ISO Latin 1 and UTF-7 or UTF-8. This is more or less what HTTP has done. It prooved to be detrimental, because ISO Latin 1 was used as a default (without explicit "charset" paramenter) and in various parts of the world, there was a rather low incentive to actually implement handling the "charset" parameter, or adding one where it was needed. As a result, most HTTP trafic, whether in ISO Latin 1 or not, is not correctly tagged. Regards, Martin. #-#-# Martin J. Du"rst, World Wide Web Consortium #-#-# mailto:duerst@w3.org http://www.w3.org
Received on Monday, 5 April 1999 05:13:37 UTC