- From: Yakov Shafranovich <yakov-ietf@shaftek.org>
- Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 21:16:11 -0400
- To: W3C CSV on the Web Working Group <public-csv-wg@w3.org>
Received on Thursday, 30 October 2014 01:17:12 UTC
I noticed the github issue Jeni posted earlier (#44) as well as issue #8 in the model document ( http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-tabular-data-model-20140327/). The issue is that we want the default character set to be UTF-8 while RFC4180 when I wrote it defines it as plain ASCII. While going through the documents, it turns out that the default character set for "text/csv" is actually now UTF-8. This change took effect when RFC7111 which defines CSV fragments was approved. The CSV mime type now consists of RFC 4180, RFC 7111 with a combined registration appearing here: https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/text/csv This means that while RFC 4180 does mandate ASCII, for standards purposes on the IETF side, this has been changed and the default now is in fact UTF-8. Thanks, Yakov
Received on Thursday, 30 October 2014 01:17:12 UTC