- From: Rich Salz <rsalz@osf.org>
- Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 08:14:42 -0500 (EST)
- To: fielding@kiwi.ICS.UCI.EDU, mduerst@ifi.unizh.ch
- Cc: uri@bunyip.com
> An HTTP server doesn't need one -- its URLs are >either composed by computation (in which case knowing the charset is not >possible) or by derivation from the filesystem (in which case it will use >whatever charset the filesystem uses, and in any case has no way of >determining whether or not that charset is UTF-8). I don't know if you can just rule out filesystems just like that. I can imagine networked filesystems that span hosts that would have, or need to have, the locale stored at the mountpoint. /r$
Received on Friday, 7 March 1997 08:14:52 UTC