[PROV-N] Specific recommendation for charset parameter in PROV-N media type

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Subject: Re: [apps-discuss] RFC 6657 on Update to MIME regarding "charset" 
Parameter Handling in Textual Media Types
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 22:44:54 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ned Freed <ned.freed@mrochek.com>
To: Graham Klyne <Graham.Klyne@zoo.ox.ac.uk>

> On 10/07/2012 18:18, Ned Freed wrote:
> > Does this type actually meet the criteria for text specified in RFC 2046
> > section 4.1? I rather suspect it doesn't. If not, it really has no business
> > being a text subtype, and all of this is moot.

> I believe it does.  We're not talking XML or anything like that.  It's a textual
> notation for provenance information, intended for human and occasional machine
> consumption.

Then my suggestion would be to make the charset parameter mandatory, with
the only legal value being utf-8. The alternative would be to omit
it and specify utf-8 as the default, but as I said, that's not likely
to interoperate well.

				Ned

Received on Thursday, 12 July 2012 13:59:26 UTC