- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:38:47 +0200
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- CC: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>, public-webapps <public-webapps@w3.org>
Boris Zbarsky wrote: > Julian Reschke wrote: >> Maybe I'm missing something, but why not leave it alone if the MIME >> type isn't "text/*" (the only ones where charset is really relevant)? > > An excellent example right there of why! For example, it's relevant for > some application types: application/xml, application/xhtml+xml, > application/x-javascript (yes, I know, not officially registered, still > in use). Why would you ever *want* to set charset on application/xml or application/*+xml? (except for the reason the related RFC recommends it)? What is it good for? Are there really cases where people need to override the results of XML's charset sniffing? > ... BR, Julian
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