- From: Gavin Nicol <gtn@ebt.com>
- Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 14:17:42 -0500
- To: yergeau@alis.ca
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
>And with MIME specifically forbidding UCS-2, and HTTP/1.0 >silent about it, the result would be that it would effectively be >forbidden, perhaps for good, and for no good technical reasons. This >is unacceptable, and the language should remain in HTTP/1.0. While I agree that the language should not be sent out, I should note that MIME only disallows UCS-2 for text/* types. If you send that data as application/*, I think it's acceptable (most client will not recognise it though...). >The bottom line is that in current practice there is no default, and >IMHO recommended practice should be the same: no default, charset >compulsory. Quite. It's a pity we have to standardise behaviour that is incorrect.
Received on Monday, 12 February 1996 11:23:21 UTC