- From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
- Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 21:46:07 -0500
- To: Michel Suignard <michelsu@windows.microsoft.com>
- Cc: public-iri@w3.org, uri@w3.org
Michel Suignard scripsit:
> For example, a 'data' IRI might need a separate specification for the
> default MIME type (since text/plain defaults US-ASCII). And an IRI
> URN might also have a different mapping, etc.
This isn't really apt, because the charset parameter in MIME types tells
how to translate an entity body (which is made of bytes) into a character
stream. URIs/IRIs are already a character stream, so the question doesn't
arise.
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