Re: I18N Concensus - Generic Syntax Document

>  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$