- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 21:32:36 +0200
- To: public-webarch-comments@w3.org
Hello public-webarch-comments, The reason for that is because of the required text/* fallback to text/plain;charset="us-ascii" So, since XML requires UTF-8 and UTF-16 support the latter in particular is a problem - for systems that don't understand XML. However, if one happens to have a UTF-16 XML document and one wants to serve the source as source, then serving it as text/plain;charset="utf-16" is perfectly fine because it is not a falback behavior but a deliberate action, and is unambiguous wrt character encoding -- Chris Lilley mailto:chris@w3.org Chair, W3C SVG Working Group Member, W3C Technical Architecture Group
Received on Monday, 18 October 2004 19:32:36 UTC