- From: Wingard, Steve <swingard@spyglass.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 11:27:56 -0600
- To: "'jg@pa.dec.com'" <jg@pa.dec.com>, "'http-wg@hplb.hpl.hp.com'" <http-wg@hplb.hpl.hp.com>
- Cc: "Adams, Glenn" <gadams@spyglass.com>
I did a little digging in the archives on this one. To find the history of the "charset flap", go to http://www.egroups.com/list/http-wg/ and search for a thread that began on June 26, 1996 entitled "DRAFT Minutes, HTTP working group", and then mutated into "charset flap", and then "proposed HTTP changes for charset". This basically details the evolution of the choice that iso-8859-1 is the "unstated default charset", and a user agent that sends no Accept-Charset at all is expected to support iso-8859-1.
Received on Tuesday, 17 November 1998 09:44:13 UTC