- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2005 11:18:11 +0300
On Apr 9, 2005, at 09:29, Lachlan Hunt wrote: > In the current draft, for specifying the character encoding [1], it is > stated: ... > | Authors should avoid including inline character encoding information. Since many current UAs do not reserialize docs with inline character encoding information when saving to disk, I think it is appropriate and mostly harmless to specify UTF-8 both in the HTTP header and inline. > For X(HT)ML, according to the Architecture of the World Wide Web, > Volume One - Media types for XML [2]: > > | In general, a representation provider SHOULD NOT specify the > character > | encoding for XML data in protocol headers since the data is > | self-describing. Too bad RFC 3023 gives bad advice and insists on harmful defaults for text/*. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen at iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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