- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 17:52:09 +0100
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- CC: "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
Boris Zbarsky wrote: > > Oh, one more note. Gecko's sniffing behavior actually had to be changed > recently. Unfortunately, the more recent Apache installs changed from > ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8 as the default encoding, without changing the > default content type behavior. So at this point, in Gecko, data flagged > as "text/plain; charset=UTF-8" is also sniffed to see whether it might > be binary. Since all of the byte values that trigger the "binary" > determination are illegal in UTF-8, as far as I can tell, this shouldn't > affect any actual UTF-8 text. It might be a good idea to update the > tests and the spec if people agree, though. It's also worth noting that in httpd trunk, the new default is *not* to send a content type at all when it is unknown. Thus, the original problem (in Apache) has finally been fixed. BR, Julian
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